Meet Us by the Roaring Sea

"A spellbinding book." Megha Majumdar"Akil Kumarasamy is a singular talent . . . I love this book." Cathy Park HongWritten in vivid and pulsating prose, alternating between the young woman's present life and passages of the translated manuscript, Akil Kumarasamy's Meet Us by the Roaring Sea is a remarkable, genre-bending exploration of memory, technology, friendship, love, consciousness, and the costs of caring for others in an age when we are so often lost in the swamps of our own minds.In the near future, a young woman finds her mother's body starfished on the kitchen floor in Queens and sets on a journey through language, archives, artificial intelligence, and TV for a way back into herself. She begins to translate an old manuscript about a group of female medical studentsliving through a drought and at the edge of the waras they create a new way of existence to help the people around them. In the process, the...