Meet Us by the Roaring Sea - Hardcover

Kumarasamy, Akil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374177708 ISBN 13: 9780374177706

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2022

Synopsis

New York Times Editors' Choice 2022
An NPR Books We Love 2022
Shortlisted for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
Longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award
Finalist for the Lambda Award in Bisexual Fiction

"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 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.

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?

About this title

About the Author

Akil Kumarasamy is the author of the linked story collection Half Gods, which was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, was awarded the Bard Fiction Prize and the Story Prize Spotlight Award, and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. Her work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, American Short Fiction, BOMB, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the University of East Anglia, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She is an assistant professor in the Rutgers-Newark MFA program.

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374177708
• ISBN 13: 9780374177706
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 287