Ply

After Trust, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize, the question was: what next? Diaz’s answer is the wholly fresh and surprising Ply, his third novel. Centuries from now, in an American city, an orphan grows up siphoning electricity from the grid to power the underground punk scene that she adores. Then a paranoid thread starts pulling her in – friends she cannot quite trust, an identity she cannot quite hold, and a scientific experiment that may rewrite the fabric of reality itself. An ambitious and mind-expanding futuristic thriller examining the role of technology in a changed society, capitalism, mothers and daughters, loss and friendship.