A good book-club discussion rarely depends on everyone agreeing about the protagonist. The conversation gets livelier when intelligent people can look at the same decision, understand why it was made, and still disagree about whether it was right.
Silicon Heartbeats gives reading groups plenty of those decisions. Alessandro Sappia’s literary novel follows med-tech founder Alex Mercer through artificial intelligence, startup growth, personal relationships, and competing responsibilities, creating discussion territory that reaches well beyond the familiar question of whether ambition is worth its price.
Alex’s Mission Is Easy to Understand and Harder to Judge
Alex begins with a motive that carries genuine weight. After witnessing a devastating medical error and seeing his grandmother narrowly survive a misdiagnosis, he becomes determined to address diagnostic problems through technology.
