Twenty-third Street wasn't busy-a little early for the lunch crowd-but he kept getting trapped behind iPhone zombies, people half his age who wandered in a dream with their eyes fixed on their screens. (Emily St. John Mandel)

Twenty-third Street wasn't busy-a little early for the lunch crowd-but he kept getting trapped behind iPhone zombies, people half his age who wandered in a dream with their eyes fixed on their screens.

Emily St. John Mandel

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