Forget I Told You This: A Novel (Zero Street Fiction)

By: Hilary Zaid

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Synopsis: 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 artist&’s residency at the world&’s 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, Amy&’s search for the letter&’s recipient leads her straight to Q and the most beautiful illuminated manuscript she has ever seen, the Codex Argentus, hidden away in Q&’s Library of Books That Don&’t Exist—and to a group of data privacy vigilantes who want her to burn Q to the ground. Amy&’s curiosity becomes her salvation, as she&’s drawn closer and closer to the secret societies and crackpot philosophers that haunt the city&’s abandoned warehouses and defunct train depots. All of it leads to an opportunity of a lifetime: an artist&’s residency deep in the holographic halls of Q headquarters. It&’s a dream come true—so long as she follows Q&’s rules.

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