"Raises the stakes for the rest of us writers" ISABEL WAIDNER"An important new talent" FIONA SHAW"Bold and inventive...I loved it" IRENOSEN OKOJIE"Silva's book asks all the right questions" JOANNA WALSH"Curious,queer,whip-smart,hilarious and tender" GAIL MCCONNELLA 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.
Publisher: Footnote Press LtdISBN: 9781804440407Number of pages: 272Weight: 270 gDimensions: 216 x 135 x 20 mm
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My Child,the Algorithm redoes what autobiography is. Funny,inventive and moving,it raises the stakes for the rest of us writersHannah 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 talentCurious,queer,whip-smart,hilarious and tender. Just read it. Hannah Silva is my favourite male seahorseA bold and inventive meditation on the complexities of motherhood. I loved itA 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 passionHannah Silva's writing is searing,sharp,moving,and alive to the inanities and absurdities of her worlds. With a poet's ear and a truly poetic eye and playwright's feel for all life's dramas her talent is one to treasure and audio drama's rarest of pleasuresHannah Silva lets bodies and rooms be the waxing and waning things of space and line they also are,instead of manoeuvrable substance. How beautiful - this is amazing workA brilliant,surprising,funny,moving,unexpected,unique work of genius
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