Memory Piece

A Novel

De: Lisa Ko

Narrado por: Eunice Wong

Duración: 9 h y 39 m

Resumen del Editor

NAMED A VOGUE BEST BOOK OF 2024

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BOOKRIOT, THE MILLIONS, LITHUB AND MORE!

"A moving, strikingly evocative exploration of New York's art, tech, and activism scenes across the decades."–Vogue

The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life?

In 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.

*Includes a downloadable PDF of images from the book

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©2024 Lisa Ko (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"A moving, strikingly evocative exploration of New York's art, tech, and activism scenes across the decades."–Vogue, "Best Books of 2024"

"Lisa Ko has brought us one of those rare, sumptuous tales of art and friendship that feels both universal and inimitable."–Elle, "Best (and Most Anticipated) Fiction Books of 2024"

"The novel serves as an archive of our past and a vision for what’s to come, hauntingly beautiful in a way that’s both nostalgic and dystopian. In essence, Memory Piece is about the power of remembering, especially when it’s painful.”–Booklist

Memory vs Present

I am still sorting out whether Ko is valuing or devaluing Memory. Giselle burns then stores memories; Ellen challenges then clings to the past. All sort of pretend to escape their Present circumstances, yet their lives are undoubtedly shaped by the world they live in, that for all their efforts they cannot escape. the story seems to be saying that ultimately we cling to and are defined by both, but I get the feeling that Ko would prefer to say that both are somehow ephemeral, or powerless to define us. So I am.left wondering if I missed the point.

Also, I had a hard time with the narrator. Was her tone intending to convey a sense of remembering the events in the past?

Just not for me.

It was an interesting story but I disliked almost all the characters which made it less compelling for me.