Hernan Diaz in conversation with Tayari Jones - Ply
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of “Trust” turns to the future with a novel that examines the place of technology in the American imagination.
A Cappella Books proudly presents an evening with Hernan Diaz to celebrate the release of his highly-anticipated new novel, “Ply.” Diaz will appear in conversation with Atlanta’s own Tayari Jones, NYT bestselling author of “Kin.”
Each ticket includes a signed hardcover edition of “Ply.”
Please note that tickets are non-refundable. If you cannot attend, your ticket still entitles you to a signed copy of the book, which A Cappella Books will hold for one month after the event. You may pick it up in-store or call to request shipping.
About the Book
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 “pincher,” someone who steals electricity from the grid to sell it on the black market. It’s 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.
After rewriting America’s 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, Ply questions 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, Ply poignantly charts the tenuous boundaries of selfhood and the distance that inevitably stands between us and those we love.
About the Author
Hernan Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling author of “Trust,” one of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the Century. His previous novel, “In 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’s Cullman Center. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages.
About the Conversation Partner
Tayari Jones is the author of five novels, most recently “Kin,” an Oprah’s Book Club selection, a New York Times bestseller, and one of the New York Times’ Best Books of the Year. Her previous novel, “An American Marriage,” was also an Oprah’s Book Club selection and appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list and year-end roundup. It won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and an NAACP Image Award, and has been published in more than two dozen countries. Jones is the C.H. Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and lives in Atlanta.
