Kumarasamy Akil - Meet Us By The Roaring Sea A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A spellbinding book. Megha Majumdar Akil Kumarasamy is a singular talent. Cathy Park Hong In the near future a young woman finds her mother's body starfished on the kitchen floor in Queens and sets out 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 beset by a drought and living at the edge of a war as they create a new way of existing to help the people around them. As she works on the translation her life and the manuscript become entangled. Later the arrival of a childhood friend a stranger and an unusual AI project force her to question her own moral compass. How involved are we in the suffering of others? What does real compassion look like? How do you make a better world? Written in vivid and pulsating prose that alternates between the young woman's life and passages of the 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 caught within the swamps of our own minds.
Title: Meet Us By The Roaring Sea A Novel
Author(s): Kumarasamy Akil
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250872852
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/22/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction