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MEET US BY THE ROARING SEA
By: Akil Kumarasamy
A Novel
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
September 2022
On Sale: August 23, 2022
304 pages
ISBN: 0374177708
EAN: 9780374177706
Kindle: B09CNFMTDQ
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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?
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