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THE UNSEEN WORLD

Liz Moore

THE UNSEEN WORLD is a heartbreaking and moving story about a daughter's quest to discover the truth about her father's hidden past.

Ada Sibelius is raised by David, a single father and head of a computer science lab in Boston. Home-schooled, she accompanies her loving fatherbrilliant, eccentric, socially ineptto work every day. By twelve, she is a painfully shy prodigy. The lab begins to gain acclaim at the same moment that David's mind begins to falter and his mysterious past comes into question. When her father moves into a nursing home, Ada is taken in by one of David's colleagues. She embarks on a mission to uncover her father's secrets: a process that carries her from childhood to adulthood. Eventually Ada pioneers a type of software that enables her to make contact with her past, and to reconcile the man she thought she knew with the truth.

Norton will be publishing THE UNSEEN WORLD as a lead title in June 2016. Liz Moore's previous novel HEFT - received fantastic review coverage, quotes from Mary Gordon, Column McCann and Russell Banks, and was licensed in the UK. Italy, France, and Korea.

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Book Published 2016-07-01 by W.W. Norton

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Featured as on of the Top Ten Books to Read in July Read more...

Moore's third and perhaps most ambitious novel (after Heft and The Words of Every Song) is large in scope, as it explores the philosophical issues surrounding human vs. computer consciousness, but it is also a small-scab, powerfully local story about a young girl Moore's vivid characters will stay with readers long after the story has ended. Highly recommended for literary fiction enthusiasts, with crossover appeal to sf fans.

a cerebral, page-turning thriller...an elegant and ethereal novel about identity and the dawn of artificial intelligence, and a convincing interior portrait of a young woman....who is conversant in worlds both seen and unseen. Read more...

UK: Windmill; China: Guangxi

In sparse, urgent prose, Liz Moore delivers a staggeringly beautiful meditation on love, legacy and the emotional necessities that make life worth living. That lump in your throat? You won't quite know how it got there---nor believe how long it will stick around once the final page is turned. - Téa Obreht, winner of the Orange Prize and bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife

In her third novel, Moore delivers a striking examination of family, memory, and technology Mysteries build, and Moore's gift for storytelling excels. This is a smart, emotionally powerful literary page-turner. (starred review)

New Nailbiters column: Award-winning author Moore brings us the brain-boggling tale of comp-sci prodigy Ada, who must break the code her father left behindand pioneer her ownif she's ever going to figure out who her dad really was.

I absolutely love this wise, compassionate novel that challenges our definitions of family, of intelligence, and of love. Equal parts cerebral and heartbreaking, The Unseen World is utterly compelling, and its heroine Ada Sibelius is irresistible in all her thorny vulnerability. Liz Moore has given us a masterful version of our own modern condition, and I cannot wait to place this book in the hands of my most ardent reader friends. Robin Black

Mysteries build, and Moore's gift for storytelling excels. This is a smart, emotionally powerful literary page-turner. (PW Pick of the Week)

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...intelligent and brilliantly absorbing... Filled with achingly memorable scenes ... and beautifully nuanced writing, Moore's latest is a stunner in its precise take on identity and the compromises even the most righteous among us must make to survive life's challenges with grace. (starred review)

I was so thoroughly engaged with The Unseen World. What a wonderful, fulfilling, riveting read, alive with complex characters, a thrilling story, wit, and, above all, a deep sense of compassion. Jami Attenberg