The Structuralist by Wall, David

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ADDED BY THE NAC AT THE AUTHOR’S REQUEST.

In an age shaped by automated decisions and rising AI anxiety, one truth becomes impossible to ignore:
when systems fail, someone still has to show up.

The Structuralist is a quiet, powerful literary novel about what remains of human responsibility in a world increasingly run by machines. When minor glitches cascade into public failures—an autonomous taxi misjudging a pedestrian, a hospital triage algorithm overlooking the vulnerable, a deepfake paralyzing a city—the cracks in modern order widen. And into these cracks step the people still willing to see, decide, and intervene.

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