Author event with Hernan Diaz

Parnassus Books and Montgomery Bell Academy are thrilled to present an evening with Hernan Diaz, in conversation with Lindsay Lynch, for Hernan's new book, Ply.

This ticketed event will be held in Montgomery Bell Academy's Dead Poets Society Room, located in the Mary Helen Lowry Building (close to the South Wilson entrance). The event will take place on Monday, October 5th at 6:30 PM, with doors opening at 5:30 PM.

Tickets:

Each ticket is $37.85 and includes one general admission seat and one signed copy of Ply. Additional signed copies of Ply, along with a limited number of backlist titles, will be available for purchase. There will be a signing line for personalization directly following the event on stage.

Parking:

Parking is free on the MBA campus. There is a garage located at 205 South Wilson Boulevard (East side of MBA's campus). You may also park in the Vine Street Church parking lot or in any of the surface lots on campus.

About the book:

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust turns to the future with a novel that examines the place of technology in the American imagination

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.