The Intuitionist

This marvelously inventive, genre-bending, noir-inflected novel, set in the curious world of elevator inspection, portra... (more)

This marvelously inventive, genre-bending, noir-inflected novel, set in the curious world of elevator inspection, portrays a universe parallel to our own, where matters of morality, politics, and race reveal unexpected ironies. (less)

An elevator inspector becomes the center of controversy when an elevator crashes. The inspector, Lila Mae Watson, is a b... (more)

An elevator inspector becomes the center of controversy when an elevator crashes. The inspector, Lila Mae Watson, is a black woman who inspects by intuition, as opposed to visual observation, and now she must prove her method was not at fault. A study of society's attitude to technology and a debut in fiction. (less)