{"product_id":"who-knows-you-by-heart","title":"Who Knows You by Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Electrifying and smart, \u003cem\u003eWho Knows You By Heart\u003c\/em\u003e is part thriller, part prophecy, part gift and all the way live.\"--Junot Diaz\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScintillates with light and warmthAnd its hilariously funny. The view of Big Tech through Olivia the coders eyes is delicious. I absolutely loved this book.Alison Bechdel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart social thriller, part modern love story, \u003cem\u003eWho Knows You by Heart \u003c\/em\u003eis a sly, witty, and endlessly discussable tale of Big Tech, new money, relationships, race, and discovering whats real in an age of artificial intelligence.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOctavia Crenshaw, a Jamaican-American coder living in Manhattan, is broke, burned out, and haunted by her parents deaths. Desperate to pay off some debts, she ditches her nonprofit job for a high-paying gig at Eustachian Inc., a Big Tech company that specializes in audio entertainment. Language, communication, human connectionthese are the markets Eustachian wants to revolutionize...and dominate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOctavia finds herself swept up in the world of the Tech Titans, with its lure of instant riches and its seemingly limitless future. But as one of Eustachians very few Black employees, Octavia is uncomfortably aware of things that seem to escape her coworkers: unexplained tech glitches, cryptic remarks, a mysterious secret floor in the corporations gleaming headquarters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut she sets her suspicions aside when shes recruited by another Black coderthe infuriating but attractive Walcottto collaborate on a secret project code-named Zion. Zion is a new kind of AI-powered storytelling, one thats programmed to be free from the racist and sexist biases that plague other AI products. Zion could launch Eustachian into a bold new future and make its developers super rich while righting all kinds of injustices. Octavia and Walcotts excitement over their creation sets off romantic sparks between the two of them, until they discover a toxic secret about their employersomething that they cant unlearn, or overlook, but must overcome.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57495525130613,"sku":"9780063418653","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/who-knows-you-by-heart","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}