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Forget I Told You This Hilary Zaid

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Forget I Told You This By Hilary Zaid

Forget I Told You This by Hilary Zaid

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Forget I Told You This is the story of a queer single mother and aspiring artist who finds herself in the thick of a plot to overthrow Big Data.

Forget I Told You This Summary

Forget I Told You This: A Novel by Hilary Zaid

Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction

Amy Black, a queer single mother and an aspiring artist in love with calligraphy, dreams of a coveted artists residency at the worlds largest social media company, Q. One ink-black October night, when the power is out in the hills of Oakland, California, a stranger asks Amy to transcribe a love letter for him. When the stranger suddenly disappears, Amys search for the letters recipient leads her straight to Q and the most beautiful illuminated manuscript she has ever seen, the Codex Argentus, hidden away in Qs Library of Books That Dont Existand to a group of data privacy vigilantes who want her to burn Q to the ground.

Amys curiosity becomes her salvation, as shes drawn closer and closer to the secret societies and crackpot philosophers that haunt the citys abandoned warehouses and defunct train depots. All of it leads to an opportunity of a lifetime: an artists residency deep in the holographic halls of Q headquarters. Its a dream come trueso long as she follows Qs rules.

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"Confronting timely questions such as how to preserve free will in a data-driven society while also telling a humane tale about rising above tragedy and disappointment, Forget I Told You This is a memorable novelan adventure through words and emotions."Foreword Reviews, starred
"I appreciate how Zaidin addition to delivering a smart, surreal, and sexy thriller with a perfect endinggets at the tensions between my generation's love of things we can hold in our hands and the increasingly overwhelming universe of digital media, Big Data, consumer surveillance, and AIwherein we are fed things more often than we discover them."Michael Mechanic,Mother Jones
Forget I Told You This sets our high-tech world of phones and apps vibrating against the beauty and history of pen and ink. Twisty and textured, rich and hyperreal, Hilary Zaids world is dense with mysterious invitations. In fact, her novel itself is exactly such an invitationand Im very glad I said yes.Robin Sloan, author of Sourdough and the New York Times bestseller Mr. Penumbras 24-Hour Bookstore
Hilary Zaid has written a gorgeous delight, lush with things not often seena sexy midlife heroine, handmade magic, and love letters both as plot and to a certain time and place in San Francisco. I loved every word.Claire McMillan, author of Alchemy of a Blackbird
[Forget I Told You This is] not about Torah, exactlyalthough Amy reflects that on calfskin curled around two wooden rollers had been tattooed the history of the worldbut anyone who resonates to the sacredness of text and the fragility of memory will feel those ideas being delicately and elaborately explored. Amys emotional touchstone is a dark soferet [female scribe] she once saw working away in a Jewish museum, murmuring over her sacred words. . . . Because the text was more important than the scribe. That was our tradition. Zaids first novel, Paper Is White, was about Holocaust historians and survivors, and in this novel, too, memory and forgetting become something absolutely central.Amy E. Schwartz, Moment magazine

Deftly weaving together elements of a futuristic thriller, a family drama, and an ode to illuminated manuscripts, Forget I Told You This follows lonely scribe Amy Black on her quest to discover the mystery behind tech giant Q, a local resistance group seeking her help, and ultimately, herself. The prose is gorgeous, the plot tense, and Amy is a wonderfully flawed and sympathetic character whose intense battle between her artistic ambition, the demands of her family, and her own need for love form the beating heart of this gripping and imaginative novel.Erin Swan, author of Walk the Vanished Earth
Forget I Told You This, Hilary Zaids portrait of the artist as a face-blind queer scrivener obsessed with ancient texts takes us to the back alleys of Oakland and the secrets rooms of a social media giant that is god-like in its omniscience and omnipotencea world very much like the present. In this literary thriller made up of shifting identities and realities, where nothing and nobody is as they seem, one thing is a constant: the penetrating insight and elegance of Zaids prose.Lori Ostlund, author of After the Parade

About Hilary Zaid

Hilary Zaid is the author of the award-winning novel Paper is White. Her short works have appeared in Mother Jones, Ecotone, Day One, Southwest Review, and Utne Reader, and have been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

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GOR013601956
9781496235367
1496235363
Forget I Told You This: A Novel by Hilary Zaid
Hilary Zaid
Zero Street Fiction
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University of Nebraska Press
2023-09-01
308
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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