Echoes and Algorithms
Echoes and Algorithms
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Author(s): Wilcox, Clifton
ISBN No.: 9781969770722
Year: 202701
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 27.93
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

Echoes and Algorithms is a thought-provoking literary novel about memory, identity, and the fragile line between preserving a culture and merely recording its remains. Professor Lena Grayhawk has devoted her life to documenting the last fluent speakers of the endangered Awani language. As the community's elders die one by one, she races to preserve stories that have survived for centuries. Yet one sacred tradition refuses to be recorded, protected by customs that no technology can overcome. At the same time, Lena's estranged son, Daniel, is being drawn into the endless pull of social media algorithms that reward certainty, outrage, and division. While his mother fights to preserve an ancient worldview rooted in relationships and lived experience, Daniel is consumed by a digital world that reshapes identity one click at a time. As time runs out for the last keepers of the language, mother and son must confront painful choices about heritage, truth, and what it means to belong before both a family and an irreplaceable culture are lost forever. Blending emotional family drama with timely questions about artificial intelligence, digital addiction, misinformation, and cultural survival, Echoes and Algorithms is a powerful exploration of the stories we inherit, the technologies we create, and the memories that define who we become.



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