My Child, the Algorithm
An alternatively intelligent book of love
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Footnote Press Ltd
Published:20th Jul '23
Should be back in stock very soon
A book about love, loss and queer single parenting co-written with a machine-learning algorithm and a toddler.
** A Granta Book of the Year 2023 **
'Raises the stakes for the rest of us writers' ISABEL WAIDNER
'An important new talent' FIONA SHAW
'Curious, queer, whip-smart, hilarious and tender' GAIL MCCONNELL
A living exploration of undoing and redoing queer single parenting and love, in conversation with an AI algorithm and a toddler.
As Hannah Silva navigates friendship, dating and life as a queer single parent in London, her toddler and the algorithm contribute humour, play and insight. With the help/disruption of these unreliable narrators, Hannah deconstructs her story, and constructs a new one. She unravels everything she has been taught to want, finding alternative ways of thinking, loving and parenting today.
Queer, creative, sexy and compassionate, My Child, the Algorithm is non-fiction at its finest.
My Child, the Algorithm redoes what autobiography is. Funny, inventive and moving, it raises the stakes for the rest of us writers -- Isabel Waidner * author of STERLING KARAT GOLD *
Hannah breaks all the rules in order to refresh our minds. No writer I know in drama is as brave or as vulnerable. She talks to another hinterland of the mind. She writes like she is climbing a mountain naked.... an important new talent -- Fiona Shaw
Curious, queer, whip-smart, hilarious and tender. Just read it. Hannah Silva is my favourite male seahorse -- Gail McConnell
A bold and inventive meditation on the complexities of motherhood. I loved it -- Irenosen Okojie * author of NUDIBRANCH *
A work worthy to stand beside classics of queer parenting by Maggie Nelson and Gail McConnell, Silva's book asks all the right questions about art, family and love, with clarity, invention and passion -- Joanna Walsh * author of GIRL ONLINE: A USER MANUAL *
ISBN: 9781804440407
Dimensions: 216mm x 135mm x 20mm
Weight: 270g
272 pages