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Thirteen-year-old Jamie, protagonist of the Booker Prize-nominated novel “How to Build a Boat,” thinks that if he could only invent a perpetual motion machine, it would somehow reunite him with his long-dead mother. That idea may be fanciful, but there is a real-life device that can connect people a...