Gish Jen
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
"The time: not so long from now. The place: AutoAmerica. The land: half under water. The Internet: one part artificial intelligence, one part surveillance technology, and oddly human -- even funny. The people: Divided. The angel-fair 'Netted' have jobs, and literally occupy the high ground. The 'Surplus' live on swampland if they're lucky, on water if they're not. The story: To a Surplus couple -- he once a professor, she still a lawyer -- is born...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Description
Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: "It was like having twins...She got to book the same church with the same pianist for both funerals and did think she should have gotten some sort of twofer from the crematorium."
But two years later, it's time for Hattie to start over. She moves to a small New
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