Description
DATE OF RELEASE: 24 SEPT 2026
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust turns to the future with a novel that examines the place of technology in our collective imagination. Centuries from now, an orphan adrift in an American city grows up to become a pincher. Stealing electricity from the grid to power the vibrant downtown music scene she adores is a risky occupation, and the city she moves through can be dangerous.
She is right to be wary. But soon, she is drawn into a paranoid maze where her closest friends and even her own identity are put into question – all while following a thread leading to a scientific experiment that could change the fabric of reality itself. Set in a future filled with both uncertainty and promise, Ply is a powerfully humane novel that interrogates the role of technology in a deeply changed society.
A gripping quest for truth at the dawn of a new historical epoch, it offers us a deep dive into the burden of capitalism, while poignantly charting the boundaries of selfhood, and the distance that stands between us and those we love.
Hardback
Publication: 24 Sept 2026, Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781037407161
Extent: 464 pages
