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HERNAN DIAZ\u00a0is the Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning and\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestselling author of\u00a0Trust, one of\u00a0The New York Times\u2019s 100 Best Books of the Century. His previous novel,\u00a0In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award. He has received the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Kirkus Prize, a Whiting Award, and a fellowship from the New York Public Library\u2019s Cullman Center. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages.<\/p>\n
ADRIANA\u00a0E. RAM\u00cdREZ\u00a0is a writer, critic, and poet based in Pittsburgh. She is the author of\u00a0The Violence: My Family\u2019s Colombian War\u00a0(Scribner, 2026), the 2015 PEN\/Fusion Emerging Writer\u2019s Prize-winning\u00a0Dead Boys\u00a0(Little A, 2016), and\u00a0The Swallows: Poems\u00a0(Blue Sketch Press, 2016). Ram\u00edrez is also a former critic-at-large for the\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u2019s Book Section and the former columnist and books editor at the\u00a0Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She is the cofounder of Aster(ix) Journal with Angie Cruz. Her writing has also appeared in the\u00a0Atlantic, the\u00a0Boston Globe,\u00a0People Magazine, and elsewhere. She once lost terribly on Jeopardy!.<\/p>\n
ABOUT THE BOOK<\/p>\n
\u201cPly\u00a0is majestic. A cracked mirror world, a lot like ours; peopled by survivors, a lot like us; sentences so fine they break the skin; a plot that swerves through loss, love, trust, betrayal, art, science, society and control.\u201d \u2014David Mitchell<\/p>\n
The Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning author of\u00a0Trust\u00a0turns to the future with a novel that examines the place of technology in the American imagination<\/p>\n
Centuries from now, at the dawn of a historical epoch filled with both uncertainty and promise, an orphan is adrift in a city on the brink of a great transformation. The state has been dismantled, and humans are reinventing social bonds and learning new ways to coexist with nature. Following a childhood defined by loss, survival, and found family, the orphan grows up to become a \u201cpincher,\u201d someone who steals electricity from the grid to sell it on the black market. It\u2019s a high-risk life, one that brings her into a rich art and music scene where she powers underground concerts. It also leads her to a colossal scientific invention that could change the very fabric of reality.<\/p>\n
After rewriting America\u2019s past with his two previous novels, Hernan Diaz defies expectations with his third and gives us a breathtaking glimpse into the future. A major achievement from a major contemporary writer,\u00a0Ply\u00a0questions the place of technology in the American experiment with a plot that grabs both heart and mind. It is a novel of ideas built from a story of people. Combining Dickensian odyssey, family drama, and scientific thriller,\u00a0Ply\u00a0poignantly charts the tenuous boundaries of selfhood and the distance that inevitably stands between us and those we love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White Whale Bookstore and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh present an evening with\u00a0Hernan Diaz in conversation with\u00a0Adriana E.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-298590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}