This brilliant book is the novel we urgently need right now. In an addictively readable way, it weaves together insights about love, race, gender, and work in the era of Big Tech. This is the first great AI novel of our time, and it is unlikely to be surpassed anytime soon.” — Walter Isaacson, New York Times best-selling author of “Steve Jobs” and “Elon Musk”
“Witty, incisive, funny and deeply prescient. C.J. Farley has his finger on the pulse of our current moment and exposes the complications of Black life, labor, and thought in the midst of it.” — Imani Perry, National Book Award-winning author of South to America
“The Black Arts movement of the 1960s began the revolt against Anglo standards and liberated Hispanic, Native American, and Asian American writers. But Black Arts writers were mostly poets. Beginning in 1996, C.J. Farley, Colson Whitehead, Paul Beatty, and Victor LaValle did the same for the Black novel. With his novel about a Black woman’s struggles in the world of Big Tech, Farley’s ‘Who Knows You By Heart’ is the first AI novel, and coupled with his vast knowledge of pop culture, he has written a novel about our times.” — Ishmael Reed, author of “Mumbo Jumbo”
“WHO KNOWS YOU BY HEART is a brutally honest, brilliantly funny evisceration of artificial intelligence and the pretensions of the tech industry.” — Eric Kaplan, executive producer of “The Big Bang Theory” and “Young Sheldon”
“Finally a young brother with a powerful voice, not afraid to say it loud and proud. I welcome him!” — Terry McMillan, author of “How Stella Got Her Groove Back”
"Electrifying and smart, Who Knows You By Heart is part thriller, part prophecy, part gift and all the way live." — Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“[C.J. Farley’s] ‘Kingston by Starlight’ is an extraordinary achievement. Filled with heart-racing voyages, exploits, and adventures—not to mention extraordinarily vivid and elegant prose—it surprises and amazes you at every turn.” — Edwidge Danticat, author of “The Dew Breaker”
“Wry, sly, and ferociously funny, [C.J. Farley’s] ‘Around Harvard Square’ is not just the satire Ivy League college life deserves, but the one it’s been waiting for.” — Marlon James, Man Booker Prize–winning author of “A Brief History of Seven Killings”
“‘Around Harvard Square’...blends J.D. Salinger's rueful tones with Paul Beatty’s biting humor and becomes something entirely its own.” — Victor LaValle, author of “The Changeling”
“‘Around Harvard Square’ is a hysterical romp through one memorable freshman year…A provocative pleasure." — Gish Jen, author of “Typical American”
“C.J. Farley explores the complex realms of race and privilege at college with humor, insight, and edge.” — Walter Isaacson, author of “Leonardo da Vinci”
“‘Zero O’Clock’ is an insightful, eye-opening, and inventive story. C.J. Farley has penned a novel that sheds an important light on real issues facing young people today.” — Angie Thomas, author of “The Hate U Give”