Forget I Told You This: A Novel

Amy Black, a queer single mother and aspiring artist, wins the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction and is offered an artists residency at the world's largest social media company, Q. She discovers the Codex Argentus, a beautiful illuminated manuscript, and is drawn into a group of data privacy vigilantes who want to burn Q to the ground. Amy's curiosity saves her and leads her to a lifetime opportunity at Q headquarters.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 308 pages
Publication date: 01 September 2023
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction, Amy Black is a queer single mother and an aspiring artist who is in love with calligraphy. She dreams of a coveted artists residency at the world's largest social media company, Q. On a 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. However, 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. Furthermore, she discovers a group of data privacy vigilantes who want her to burn Q to the ground.

Amys curiosity becomes her salvation as she gets drawn closer and closer to the secret societies and crackpot philosophers that haunt the city's abandoned warehouses and defunct train depots. All of this leads to an opportunity of a lifetime: an artists residency deep in the holographic halls of Q headquarters. It's a dream come true, so long as she follows Q's rules.

Dimension: 216 x 140 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781496235367