Do You Remember Being Born?: A Novel
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- Synopsis
- Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels&’s moving, innovative and deeply felt novel about an aging poet who agrees to collaborate with a Big Tech company&’s poetry AI, named CharlotteMarian Ffarmer is a world-renowned poet and a legend in the making—but only now, at 75 years old, is she beginning to believe in the security of her successes. Unfortunately, a poet&’s accomplishments don&’t necessarily translate to capital, and as her adult son struggles to buy his first home, her confidence in her choices begins to fray. Marian&’s pristine life of mind—for which she&’s sacrificed nearly all personal relationships, from romance to friendship to motherhood—has come at a cost. Then comes a cryptic invitation from the Tech Company. Come to California, the invitation beckons, and write with a machine. The Company&’s lucrative offer—for Marian to co-author a poem in a &‘historic partnership&’ with their cutting-edge poetry bot, named Charlotte—chafes at everything she believes about artmaking as an individual pursuit . . . yet, it&’s a second chance she can&’t resist. And so to California she goes, a sell-out and a skeptic, for an encounter that will unsettle her life, her work and even her understanding of kinship. Both a love letter to and interrogation of the nature of language, art, labor, capital, family, and community, Do You Remember Being Born? is Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels&’s empathetic response to some of the most disquieting questions of our time—a defiant and joyful recognition that if we&’re to survive meaningfully at all, creative legacy is to be reimagined and belonging to one&’s art must mean, above all else, belonging to the world.
- Copyright:
- 2023
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 288 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781662602337
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781662602320
- Publisher:
- Astra Publishing House
- Date of Addition:
- 09/05/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Sean Michaels
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.