Join the Library and Loyalty Bookstores for a special conversation with award-winning author Lisa Ko and her excit ing new novel Memory Piece. \;
\nCopies wil l be available for sale and signing\, and a limited number will be availab le for free courtesy of the DC Public Library Foundation. \;
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\nIn the early 1980s\, Giselle Chin\, Jackie Ong\, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sens e of alienation and desire for something different. &ldquo\;Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves\,&rdquo\; they envision each other as artisti c collaborators and embark on a future defined by freedom and creativity.< /p>\n
By the time they are adults\, their dreams are murkier. As a perfo rmance artist\, Giselle must navigate an elite social world she never conc eived of. As a coder thrilled by the internet&rsquo\;s early egalitarian p romise\, Jackie must contend with its more sinister shift toward monetizat ion and surveillance. And as a community activist\, Ellen confronts the in creasing gentrification and policing overwhelming her New York City neighb orhood. Over time their friendship matures and changes\, their definitions of success become complicated\, and their sense of what matters evolves.& nbsp\;
\nMoving from the predigital 1980s to the art and tech subcul tures 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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\nLisa Ko \;is the author of the n ationally bestselling novel \;The Leavers\, which was a finalist for t he National Book Award for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award\, and winne r of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Ko&rsquo\ ;s short fiction has appeared in \;The Best American Short Stories&nbs p\;and her essays and nonfiction have been published in \;The New York Times \;and \;The Believer.
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