Summary

Hazel contemplated her first meeting with Byron. He had given the commencement speech at the graduation ceremony at her college. Hazel had heard from matriculating friends that he had used Gogol voice-recognition software to create a moving speech based in every attendee’s shouted hopes and delivered in the voice of a student who had died during his junior year. Afterward, Hazel’s roommate Jenny had been meant to interview Byron, but she came down with a terrible stomach flu. Despite her reservations about Hazel’s ability to pose as her, Jenny asked her to take her place for a little money. Hazel, who had recently quit a terrible waitressing gig and was now deep in credit card debt, agreed. When she arrived in a borrowed suit at the sleek Gogol office, the security systems immediately outed her as not Jenny. However, Byron...