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Memory Piece: Barack Obama''s Reading List 2024

English

By (author): Lisa Ko

**A BARACK OBAMA'S 2024 READING LIST title**

Remarkable . . . vividly captures the urgency of youth, and becomes a heart-breaking elegy for a communal, almost utopian approach to urban life. Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind

Bright with defiance, intelligence, and stubborn love. To spend time with these characters is a gift. C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills is Gold

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 neighbourhood. Over time their friendship matures and changes, their definitions of success become complicated, and their sense of what matters evolves.

Moving from the pre-digital 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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Product Details
  • Weight: 380g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 232mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Mar 2024
  • Publisher: Dialogue
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780349704326

About Lisa Ko

Lisa Ko is the author of The Leavers which was a 2017 National Book Award for Fiction finalist won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and was a finalist for the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award. The Leavers was a national best seller and was named a 'best book of the year' by NPR Entertainment Weekly Buzzfeed The Los Angeles Times and others. Ko's short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories and her essays and nonfiction have been published in The New York Times The Believer and elsewhere.

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