In 1974, an eighteen-year-old programmer in Porto Alegre sat alone in a data processing center - and the world opened.

What followed was a golden room with no walls, no floor, no ceiling - and inside it, the answers to humanity's three oldest questions.

The Golden Room is the memoir of Dr. Lily Smith - judo champion, engineer, sailor, skydiver, truck driver, and at sixty-nine, finally herself.

A book about what it means to be awake inside a life. And about the room that, once entered, never entirely closes.