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Memory Piece: A Novel di Lisa Ko
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Memory Piece: A Novel (edizione 2024)

di Lisa Ko (Autore)

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"Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined by freedom and creativity, but on the brink of adulthood in New York City, their fortunes quickly diverge. Giselle Chin is a performance artist, pushing the boundaries of the form while socializing with the city's artistic and financial elite. Jackie Ong works at tech start-ups during the early dotcom era, as the internet's egalitarian promise is tested against its rampant monetization. Ellen Ng, a community activist, fights against gentrification overwhelming the city's neighborhoods. Their chosen paths separate them, but their friendship sustains and challenges them across huge divides of class, status, and worldview. Decades later, their sense of what is possible has changed, mutating against the hardscrabble realities of work and love. Moving from the 1980s to the 2040s, spanning multiple eras of a changing New York City, Memory Piece explores the roles of art, friendship, and creativity in self-preservation, chronicling three women as they strive to find value in a radically different world than the one they were promised. Ambitious, visionary, and intellectually playful, Memory Piece asks how we define a good life, individually and collectively, and understanding what we do about the direction our society is headed-where do we go from here?"--… (altro)
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Titolo:Memory Piece: A Novel
Autori:Lisa Ko (Autore)
Info:Riverhead Books (2024), 304 pages
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Three Chinese-American girls meet in weekend language school in the nineties and, as the years pass, one becomes an artist, one a tech entrepreneur and one a community activist, but they continue to move in and out of each others lives, through the present and into the future.

I was really looking forward to this book. I enjoyed Lisa Ko's debut novel, The Leavers and anticipated that her vision of these women's lives in the future and the world they inhabit would be imaginative and thought-provoking. The first half of the book is excellent, although I was far more interested in Giselle's development as an artist than Jackie's involvement in a tech start-up, and Ellen's life taking over a derelict building and starting a community garden was given less space. Each woman finds their own path, two with substantial buy-in from billionaires. The first part of the novel is the strongest, depicting New York in the nineties, with each woman showing a different aspect of life in that time, from neighbors fighting gentrification to the long hours demanded of tech workers.

The final half of the novel, where Ko takes her characters into the future, is the weakest part of this book. The world she depicts here is that of a thousand other dystopian novels, a disappointment after the inventiveness of the first half of the book. That genre, with its future world basically the same across the board, is very popular and her version of it will no doubt be interesting to many readers, but I was bored. The first half, however, was very good. ( )
  RidgewayGirl | May 26, 2024 |
I read this book because I had read "The Leavers" by Ko and enjoyed it. This book was. ambitious and creative. It follows 3 girls of Chinese descent from their pre-teens in the 1980's into the 1990s and then leaps forward into a dystopian world in 2040. The book takes place in New York and Ko does a good job of getting into the heads of each of the characters. She tries to hit on so many topics such as. performance art, immigration, racism, technology, and social activism. The book is told in 3 sections through the eyes of each of the characters. All though the book talks about these 3 friends being bonded and it does. deal with their friendship, I found the connections actually very loose among the 3 of them. The book does bog down in a lot of detail that shows Ko's creativity but doesn't do much for the story. I enjoyed the final section in 2040 the most as it dealt with the negative trends we are seeing with climate change and the rich versus the poor. I would recommend reading "the Leavers" before this. one. Not sure if I would read another book by Ko unless I truly was interested in the topic. This book probably would appeal more to a younger female reader. ( )
  nivramkoorb | Apr 22, 2024 |
Giselle, Jackie, and Ellen attend the same Chinese school as pre-teens during the 1980s and form a bond over their similar other-ness that lasts throughout their lives. Lisa Ko explores these characters and their relationships with each other at three different points in time from each character’s point of view in her new novel, Memory Piece. What starts out as a confused, angsty teen and 20-something book takes a sharp turn as the book moves first into the tech boom of the late 1990s and then to a bleak and dystopian 2040. With Memory Piece, Ko examines feminism, relationships, and art with a very minimalist style that I enjoyed. Her portrayal of the 80s and 90s was on point, while the futuristic section was bleak but very plausible. I liked this book, and I think readers of RF Kuang, Kiley Reid, and other young literary writers will enjoy it, too. ( )
  Hccpsk | Sep 11, 2023 |
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Han, GraceProgetto della copertinaautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Wong, EuniceNarratoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
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"Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined by freedom and creativity, but on the brink of adulthood in New York City, their fortunes quickly diverge. Giselle Chin is a performance artist, pushing the boundaries of the form while socializing with the city's artistic and financial elite. Jackie Ong works at tech start-ups during the early dotcom era, as the internet's egalitarian promise is tested against its rampant monetization. Ellen Ng, a community activist, fights against gentrification overwhelming the city's neighborhoods. Their chosen paths separate them, but their friendship sustains and challenges them across huge divides of class, status, and worldview. Decades later, their sense of what is possible has changed, mutating against the hardscrabble realities of work and love. Moving from the 1980s to the 2040s, spanning multiple eras of a changing New York City, Memory Piece explores the roles of art, friendship, and creativity in self-preservation, chronicling three women as they strive to find value in a radically different world than the one they were promised. Ambitious, visionary, and intellectually playful, Memory Piece asks how we define a good life, individually and collectively, and understanding what we do about the direction our society is headed-where do we go from here?"--

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