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Meet us by the roaring sea

Title

Meet us by the roaring sea / Akil Kumarasamy.

Author

Kumarasamy, Akil, 1988-

Publication

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	Sc D 23-142	Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

Description

287 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Alternating between the protagonist's present life and passages of a manuscript in translation, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea is a genre-bending exploration of memory, war, technology, friendship, love, consciousness, and the challenges of caring for others in an age where we are so often lost in our own minds"--
In the near future, a young woman finds her mother's body 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 the 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. A childhood friend, a stranger, and an unusual AI project will force her to question her own moral compass and sense of goodness. -- adapted from jacket

Subject

Genre/Form

Call Number

Sc D 23-142

ISBN

LCCN

2022020655

OCLC

Author

Kumarasamy, Akil, 1988- author.

Title

Meet us by the roaring sea / Akil Kumarasamy.

Publisher

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Copyright Date

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Research Call Number

Sc D 23-142