The intuitionist: a novel
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It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the department, is at the center of it. There are two warring factions within the department: the Empiricists, who work by the book and dutifully check for striations on the winch cable and such; and the Intuitionists, who are simply able to enter the elevator cab in question, meditate, and intuit any defects. Lila Mae is an Intuitionist and, it just so happens, has the highest accuracy rate in the entire department. But when an elevator in a new city building goes into total freefall on Lila Mae's watch, chaos ensues. It's an election year in the Elevator Guild, and the good-old-boy Empiricists would love nothing more than to assign the blame to an Intuitionist. But Lila Mae is never wrong. The sudden appearance of excerpts from the lost notebooks of Intuitionism's founder, James Fulton, has also caused quite a stir. The notebooks describe Fulton's work on the "black box," a perfect elevator that could reinvent the city as radically as the first passenger elevator did when patented by Elisha Otis in the nineteenth century. When Lila Mae goes underground to investigate the crash, she becomes involved in the search for the portions of the notebooks that are still missing and uncovers a secret that will change her life forever.-- amazon.com
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African Americans
African Americans -- Fiction
African American women
African American women -- Fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Elevator mechanics
Elevator mechanics -- United States -- Fiction
Elevators
Elevators -- Inspection -- Fiction
Fiction
History
History -- Fiction
Humorous fiction
Inspection
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
Sabotoge
Sabotoge -- Fiction
Urban fiction
African Americans -- Fiction
African American women
African American women -- Fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Elevator mechanics
Elevator mechanics -- United States -- Fiction
Elevators
Elevators -- Inspection -- Fiction
Fiction
History
History -- Fiction
Humorous fiction
Inspection
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
Sabotoge
Sabotoge -- Fiction
Urban fiction
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Elevators -- Inspection -- Fiction
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Humorous fiction
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Sabotoge -- Fiction
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Elevators -- Inspection -- Fiction
Fiction
History -- Fiction
Humorous fiction
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The intuitionist : a novel
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Literature
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