Who Knows You by Heart : A Novel

"Electrifying and smart, Who Knows You By Heart is part thriller, part prophecy, part gift and all the way live."--Junot Diaz

Scintillates with light and warmthAnd its hilariously funny. The view of Big Tech through Olivia the coders eyes is delicious. I absolutely loved this book.Alison Bechdel

Part social thriller, part modern love story, Who Knows You by Heart is a sly, witty, and endlessly discussable tale of Big Tech, new money, relationships, race, and discovering whats real in an age of artificial intelligence.

Octavia Crenshaw, a Jamaican-American coder living in Manhattan, is broke, burned out, and haunted by her parents deaths. Desperate to pay off some debts, she ditches her nonprofit job for a high-paying gig at Eustachian Inc., a Big Tech company that specializes in audio entertainment. Language, communication, human connectionthese are the markets Eustachian wants to revolutionize...and dominate.

Octavia finds herself swept up in the world of the Tech Titans, with its lure of instant riches and its seemingly limitless future. But as one of Eustachians very few Black employees, Octavia is uncomfortably aware of things that seem to escape her coworkers: unexplained tech glitches, cryptic remarks, a mysterious secret floor in the corporations gleaming headquarters.

But she sets her suspicions aside when shes recruited by another Black coderthe infuriating but attractive Walcottto collaborate on a secret project code-named Zion. Zion is a new kind of AI-powered storytelling, one thats programmed to be free from the racist and sexist biases that plague other AI products. Zion could launch Eustachian into a bold new future and make its developers super rich while righting all kinds of injustices. Octavia and Walcotts excitement over their creation sets off romantic sparks between the two of them, until they discover a toxic secret about their employersomething that they cant unlearn, or overlook, but must overcome.