I really enjoyed this book by Canada's best known sci-fi author. It's set in the near future where a linguistic professor is working on decoding some messages that have been coming from Alpha Centauri for the last couple of decades. Her computer scientist husband is also working on super-super computers, quantum computers. One day their daughter comes home and accuses her father of sexual abuse, ripping the family apart. As the parents each try to cope, they turn to their work and manage to solve several pressing issues, including what the alien messages mean. Able finally to engage in a kind of mental time travel, people know that they are not alone in the universe, with interesting effects on human behaviour. Recommended (and I'm going to search out lots of his other books too.)
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