Ply | An Evening with Hernan Diaz

Sat Oct 03 2026 at 05:00 pm to 06:00 pm UTC-04:00

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Ply | An Evening with Hernan Diaz
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Join us for an evening with Pulitzer Prize–winning author Hernan Diaz for the release of his new novel, PLY.
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🎟️ Please note: Tickets are REQUIRED. Ticket options include:

2 Guests + 1 Book: ($32 + tax) Includes admission for TWO (2) guests and ONE (1) copy of the book upon entry.

1 Guest + 1 Book: ($32 + tax) Includes admission for ONE (1) guest and ONE (1) copy of the book upon entry.

Limited Free Admission + No Book: Includes admission for ONE (1) guest, book not included. Additional books will be available for sale at the event.

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About The Book

Centuries from now, at the dawn of a historical epoch filled with both uncertainty and promise, an orphan is adrift in a city on the brink of a great transformation. The state has been dismantled, and humans are reinventing social bonds and learning new ways to coexist with nature. Following a childhood defined by loss, survival, and found family, the orphan grows up to become a “pincher,” someone who steals electricity from the grid to sell it on the black market. It’s a high-risk life, one that brings her into a rich art and music scene where she powers underground concerts. It also leads her to a colossal scientific invention that could change the very fabric of reality.
After rewriting America’s past with his two previous novels, Hernan Diaz defies expectations with his third and gives us a breathtaking glimpse into the future. A major achievement from a major contemporary writer, Ply questions the place of technology in the American experiment with a plot that grabs both heart and mind. It is a novel of ideas built from a story of people. Combining Dickensian odyssey, family drama, and scientific thriller, Ply poignantly charts the tenuous boundaries of selfhood and the distance that inevitably stands between us and those we love.



About The Author

Hernan Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling author of Trust, one of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the Century. His previous novel, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has received the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Kirkus Prize, a Whiting Award, and a fellowship from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages.


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Books & Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, United States

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