Resu Espinosa-Frink's "Pauli the Ghost" asks important questions about technology and how we use it.

Whatever happened to the magical skills of New Orleans' Marie Lavoie? Do these skills disappear with the famous practitioner, or could they have been passed on? In this book, people are asked not so much to believe in the supernatural or magical-- but to think about what their use, and the reactions of people, say about us as a society.

Do we care about whether our actions bring suffering to others, or are we more concerned about our own enjoyment and sense of power? Everyone we have come in touch with doubts that Quantum science could have developed in our time as much as the books says--or at least, they doubt that anyone in the fictitious town of Old Yantic, where the story takes place, is proficient in anything one needs to master in order to do what the ghosts here do: Teleportation, GPS tracking, Biometrics stealing, cyber hacking, shapeshifting.

Think again. Why not? There are correlations between what the ghosts here do, and technological advances and scientific experimentations. So, nothing is essentially invented here. What the book does is to bring home---a town similar to our own, people that could be our neighbors---a situation in which the magical science and technology of our day turns against us in a scary manner. The ghosts are our neighbors. We have lost our privacy. But we lack a vocabulary, a system, that would allow us to communicate our experiences and bring the bullies to justice.

It is this sense that through Art we must ask the difficult questions about losing privacy, and being exposed to abuse through the technology we are developing, that inspired the local author to write this book. She is not concerned with whether people believe her story is possible, but with awakening a sense of solidarity and empathy for those affected by technology in a way that is difficult to prove. The one person who is able to help Renata Machado is an undercover cop who has learned to listen. His name is Rafi Salcedo, and you must meet him. Not only is he handsome and well-read: he credits the women in his life for the quality person he has become. Starting with his grandmother, who used to tell him: "Sueña despierto, y volarás." Dream awake, and you´ll fly.

The book can be bought locally at The Golden Owl Bookstore. And at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

The author can be reached at teatrolatinodenewlondon@gmail.com, and www.paulitheghost.com