Forget I Told You This (Zero Street Fiction)
Hilary Zaid
Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction
Amy Black, a queer single mother & an aspiring artist in love with calligraphy, dreams of a coveted artist's residency at the world's largest social media company, Q. One ink-black October night, when the power is out in the hills of Oakland, California, a stranger asks Amy to transcribe a love letter for him. When the stranger suddenly disappears, Amy's search for the letter's recipient leads her straight to Q & the most beautiful illuminated manuscript she has ever seen, the Codex Argentus, hidden away in Q's Library of Books That Don't Exist—and to a group of data privacy vigilantes who want her to burn Q to the ground.Amy's curiosity becomes her salvation, as she's drawn closer & closer to the secret societies & crackpot philosophers that haunt the city's abandoned warehouses & defunct train depots. All of it leads to an opportunity of a lifetime: an artist's residency deep in the holographic halls of Q headquarters. It’s a dream come true—so long as she follows Q’s rules.
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Hilary Zaid is the author of the award-winning novel Paper is White. Her short works have appeared in Mother Jones, Ecotone, Day One, Southwest Review, & Utne Reader, & have been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
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Zero Street will be committed to LGBTQ+ literary fiction with commercial potential, providing marginalized authors opportunities for a wide readership in the trade fiction market. The series editors are Timothy Schaffert, bestselling author of The Perfume Thief, & SJ Sindu, author of Blue-Skinned Gods. The series seeks LGBTQ+ literary fiction of all kinds, from stories of modern life to innovations on traditions of genre & are particularly interested in BIPOC authors, trans authors, & queer authors over 50.
Submissions to the series are accepted annually November 1–April 1.
Amy Black, a queer single mother & an aspiring artist in love with calligraphy, dreams of a coveted artist's residency at the world's largest social media company, Q. One ink-black October night, when the power is out in the hills of Oakland, California, a stranger asks Amy to transcribe a love letter for him. When the stranger suddenly disappears, Amy's search for the letter's recipient leads her straight to Q & the most beautiful illuminated manuscript she has ever seen, the Codex Argentus, hidden away in Q's Library of Books That Don't Exist—and to a group of data privacy vigilantes who want her to burn Q to the ground.Amy's curiosity becomes her salvation, as she's drawn closer & closer to the secret societies & crackpot philosophers that haunt the city's abandoned warehouses & defunct train depots. All of it leads to an opportunity of a lifetime: an artist's residency deep in the holographic halls of Q headquarters. It’s a dream come true—so long as she follows Q’s rules.
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Hilary Zaid is the author of the award-winning novel Paper is White. Her short works have appeared in Mother Jones, Ecotone, Day One, Southwest Review, & Utne Reader, & have been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
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Zero Street will be committed to LGBTQ+ literary fiction with commercial potential, providing marginalized authors opportunities for a wide readership in the trade fiction market. The series editors are Timothy Schaffert, bestselling author of The Perfume Thief, & SJ Sindu, author of Blue-Skinned Gods. The series seeks LGBTQ+ literary fiction of all kinds, from stories of modern life to innovations on traditions of genre & are particularly interested in BIPOC authors, trans authors, & queer authors over 50.
Submissions to the series are accepted annually November 1–April 1.
سال:
2023
اشاعت:
1
ناشر کتب:
University of Nebraska Press
زبان:
english
صفحات:
308
ISBN 10:
1496237366
ISBN 13:
9781496237361
سیریز:
Zero Street Fiction
فائل:
EPUB, 470 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2023