Sean Michaels is the author of three books, including Us Conductors, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Do You Remember Being Born?, which was one of CBC’s Best Books of 2023. His non-fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, and Pitchfork. Sean is a recipient of the Hugh MacLennan Prize and the Grand Prix Numix, and he has been nominated for the Dublin Literary Award and the Prix des libraires. Born in Scotland, Sean lives in Montreal.

Synopsis

Do You Remember Being Born?

Sean Michaels' luminous new novel takes readers on a lyrical joy ride—seven, epic days in Silicon Valley with a tall, formidable poet (inspired by the real-life Marianne Moore) and her unusual new collaborator, an artificial intelligence just one month old. Both a love letter to and interrogation of the nature of language, art, labour, capital, family, and community, Do You Remember Being Born? is Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels’s empathetic response to some of the most disquieting questions of our time.