India, July 2 -- "Over the years of her residency, it had steadily dawned on her that Pines felt much closer to a prison than any afterlife, although perhaps there was no meaningful distinction. A mysterious and beautiful lifelong sentence. It wasn't just a physical confinement, but a mental one as well, and it was the mental aspect that made it feel like a stint in solitary. The inability to outwardly acknowledge one's past or thoughts or fears. The inability to truly connect with a single human being."

That hints a lot about what the book 'Wayward by Blake Crouch' is about. A very subtly-suffocating form of surveillance. Where people walk around pretending a normal world- mysteriously ignorant about surgically-inserted chips in their l...