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MEMORY PIECE - LISA KO KARTONIERT (TB)

ONE OF TIME'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024  NAMED A VOGUE BEST BOOK OF 2024  ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S
FAVORITE READS OF SUMMER 2024   "Adventurous. . .gritty and refreshingly girl-centric. . .
lingers in the imagination." – The New York Times    “Ko…draws characters with such deftness
that they feel wholly alive." – The Washington Post   "It belongs to an American literary
tradition that includes Dana Spiotta  George Saunders  and their patron saint  Don DeLillo." –
The Atlantic   The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship 
art  and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life?  In the early 1980s 
Giselle Chin  Jackie Ong  and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense
of alienation and desire for something different. “Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves ”
they envision each other as artistic collaborators and embark on a future defined by freedom
and creativity.  By the time they are adults  their dreams are murkier. As a performance artist
Giselle must navigate an elite social world she never conceived of. As a coder thrilled by the
internet’s early egalitarian promise  Jackie must contend with its more sinister shift toward
monetization and surveillance. And as a community activist  Ellen confronts the increasing
gentrification and policing overwhelming her New York City neighborhood. Over time their
friendship matures and changes  their definitions of success become complicated  and their
sense of what matters evolves.   Moving from the predigital 1980s to the art and tech
subcultures of the 1990s to a strikingly imagined portrait of the 2040s  Memory Piece is an
innovative and audacious story of three lifelong friends as they strive to build satisfying
lives in a world that turns out to be radically different from the one they were promised.

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