Meet us by the roaring sea
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Format
Book
ISBN
9780374177706, 0374177708
Status
Milton Public Library - Adult Fiction
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780374177706, 0374177708
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Description
Written in vivid and pulsating prose, alternating between a young woman's present life and passages of a translated manuscript, Akil Kumarasamy's Meet Us by the Roaring Sea is a remarkable, genre-bending exploration of memory, technology, friendship, love, consciousness, and the costs of caring for others in an age when we are so often lost in the swamps of our own minds. In the near future, a young woman finds her mother's body starfished on the kitchen floor in Queens and sets on a journey through language, archives, artificial intelligence, and TV for a way back into herself. She begins to translate an old manuscript about a group of female medical students living through a drought and at the edge of a war as they create a new way of existence to help the people around them. In the process, the translator's life and the manuscript begin to become entangled. Along the way, the arrival of a childhood friend, a stranger, and an unusual AI project will force her to question her own moral compass and sense of goodness. How involved are we in the suffering of others? What does real compassion look like? How do you make a better world?
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kumarasamy, A. (2022). Meet us by the roaring sea (First edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kumarasamy, Akil, 1988-. 2022. Meet Us By the Roaring Sea. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kumarasamy, Akil, 1988-. Meet Us By the Roaring Sea Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kumarasamy, Akil. Meet Us By the Roaring Sea First edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
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