The Intuitionist: A Novel

The Intuitionist is the debut novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad. It tells the story of Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the Department of Elevator Inspectors. The novel takes place in a major metropolitan city and follows Lila Mae as she investigates an elevator crash that has caused chaos within the department.

The Intuitionist is set in a world where there are two warring factions within the Department of Elevator Inspectors: 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 has the highest accuracy rate in the entire department.

The sudden appearance of excerpts from the lost not Elektronisches Buch of Intuitionism's founder, James Fulton, has also caused quite a stir. The not Elektronisches Buch 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.

As Lila Mae investigates the elevator crash, she becomes involved in the search for the portions of the not Elektronisches Buch that are still missing and uncovers a secret that will change her life forever. The Intuitionist is a captivating novel that explores themes of race, power, and identity. It is a must-read for fans of literary fiction.