“This is a novel about art, about making it and sharing it, a love letter to art in a world that has forgotten how much we need it.

—Rachel Hall, Lilith Magazine

Coinciding with Audiobook Appreciation Month, the first title in Zero Street Fiction, Forget I Told You This by Hilary Zaid is available on Audible and iTunes!

Now through June 15, send us proof of purchase of the Audible or iTunes edition and receive 50% off the print book to add to your library.

Email mpress@unl.edu with confirmation of receipt of download to receive your limited-time discount code. 

About the book:

Narrated by Meg Persichetti, Forget I Told You This is the winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction. It follows Amy Black, a queer single mother and an aspiring artist in love with calligraphy, who dreams of a coveted artist’s residency at the world’s largest social media company, Q. One ink-black October night, when the power is out in the hills of Oakland, California, a stranger asks Amy to transcribe a love letter for him. When the stranger suddenly disappears, Amy’s search for the letter’s recipient leads her straight to Q and the most beautiful illuminated manuscript she has ever seen, the Codex Argentus, hidden away in Q’s Library of Books That Don’t Exist—and to a group of data privacy vigilantes who want her to burn Q to the ground.

Amy’s curiosity becomes her salvation, as she’s drawn closer and closer to the secret societies and crackpot philosophers that haunt the city’s abandoned warehouses and defunct train depots. All of it leads to an opportunity of a lifetime: an artist’s residency deep in the holographic halls of Q headquarters. It’s a dream come true—so long as she follows Q’s rules.