EAN: 9780593719688

MEMORY PIECE - LISA KO KARTONIERT (TB)

NAMED A VOGUE BEST BOOK OF 2024Adventurous ... lingers in the imagination. –The New York
TimesKo…draws characters with such deftness that they feel wholly alive.-- The Washington PostA
moving  strikingly evocative exploration of New York's art  tech  and activism scenes across
the decades.–VogueThe 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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