Richard Powers' Bewilderment is quite a story.

Here are two quotes that caught me, but that aren't indicative of the book as a whole:

“Three in the morning, the woman I loved was seeping in the dark, and I wanted to tell her how badly she’d just hurt me. That’s the ruling story on this planet. We live suspended between love and ego. Maybe it’s different in other galaxies. But I doubt it.” (130)

“This late in the story, everything was marketing. Universities had to build their brands. Every act of charity was forced to beat the drum. Friendships were measured out now in shares and likes and links. Poets and priests, philosophers and fathers fo small children: we were all on an endless, flat-out hustle. Of course science had to advertise. Call it my belated graduation from naivete.” (180)