Forget I Told You This: A Novel Hilary Zaid
Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction
Amy Black, a queer single mother and an aspiring artist in love with calligraphy, dreams of a coveted artists residency at the worlds 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, Amys search for the letters recipient leads her straight to Q and the most beautiful illuminated manuscript she has ever seen, the Codex Argentus, hidden away in Qs Library of Books That Dont Existand to a group of data privacy vigilantes who want her to burn Q to the ground.
Amys curiosity becomes her salvation, as shes drawn closer and closer to the secret societies and crackpot philosophers that haunt the citys abandoned warehouses and defunct train depots. All of it leads to an opportunity of a lifetime: an artists residency deep in the holographic halls of Q headquarters. Its a dream come trueso long as she follows Qs rules.
Amy Black, a queer single mother and an aspiring artist in love with calligraphy, dreams of a coveted artists residency at the worlds 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, Amys search for the letters recipient leads her straight to Q and the most beautiful illuminated manuscript she has ever seen, the Codex Argentus, hidden away in Qs Library of Books That Dont Existand to a group of data privacy vigilantes who want her to burn Q to the ground.
Amys curiosity becomes her salvation, as shes drawn closer and closer to the secret societies and crackpot philosophers that haunt the citys abandoned warehouses and defunct train depots. All of it leads to an opportunity of a lifetime: an artists residency deep in the holographic halls of Q headquarters. Its a dream come trueso long as she follows Qs rules.