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SUMMARY:"Memory Piece" Author Talk with Lisa Ko
DESCRIPTION:Program Description:\nIn celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month\, PBS Books is thrilled to have a bestselling author\, Lisa Ko\, join us to discuss her highly anticipated book Memory Piece. Lisa takes us on a road trip through time with Giselle (artist)\, Jackie (internet tech expert) & Ellen (activist)\, three lifelong friends whose lives as children growing up in the 80s shaped their prospects as adults at the turn of the millennia. We discuss the stories\, people\, and cultural events spanning the past four decades that inspired this story\, and the outlook based on current events that shaped the book’s dystopian landscape four decades in the future. This visionary book will have you remembering and reflecting on the past\, give you a glimpse of life not driven by technology\, and leave you questioning what the future looks like. Join us to get special insights into this provocative book.  \nMemory Piece\n\n\nIn the early 1980s\, Giselle Chin\, Jackie Ong\, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. “Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves\,” they envision each other as artistic collaborators and embark on a future defined by freedom and creativity.By the time they are adults\, their dreams are murkier. As a performance artist\, Giselle must navigate an elite social world she never conceived of. As a coder thrilled by the internet’s early egalitarian promise\, Jackie must contend with its more sinister shift toward monetization and surveillance. And as a community activist\, Ellen confronts the increasing gentrification and policing overwhelming her New York City neighborhood. Over time their friendship matures and changes\, their definitions of success become complicated\, and their sense of what matters evolves.Moving from the predigital 1980s to the art and tech subcultures 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. \n\n\n\nLearn more about Memory Piece: \nLearn more about Artist On Kawara: \nDive into Lisa’s Time Capsule: \nLearn more about performance artist Tehching Hsieh: \nGuest Biography:\nLisa Ko\, Author\nLISA KO is the author of the nationally bestselling novel The Leavers\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award\, and winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Ko’s short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and her essays and nonfiction have been published in The New York Times and The Believer.
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