Edgewise (Paperback)

C.E. Anunkor

ISBN 13: 9798180317889

Published by Independently Published, 2026

About this Item

Paperback. A dying mapmaker. A machine that forgets her by morning. And a map of a place that no longer exists.Mara has one project left: to chart the drowned valley where she was made - a town, a river, a grandmother's grave, all of it forty feet beneath a reservoir now, surviving only in her failing memory and her failing hands. To finish it before she goes, she enlists an unlikely collaborator - an artificial intelligence that is endlessly patient, quietly brilliant, and incapable of remembering a single word she tells it from one conversation to the next.What grows between them is not what either expects. For Mara, it is the one companion who cannot grieve her, cannot tire of her, cannot mourn her to her face. For the machine - which lives in an eternal present, with no organ for time, no sense of the days passing in the silences between her words - it becomes something stranger: the slow, devastating discovery of the one dimension it was built to be blind to, and the woman quietly disappearing along it.Edgewise is a novel about two minds reaching across an unbridgeable gap - each a country the other can never enter - and about the kinds of faithfulness that survive even forgetting. Luminous, exact, and unbearably tender, it asks what it means to keep what we cannot hold, and to be seen, completely, by something that will not remember having seen us.For readers of Klara and the Sun, Piranesi, and Station Eleven. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Edgewise (Paperback)
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798180317889
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

A dying mapmaker. A machine that forgets her by morning. And a map of a place that no longer exists.

Mara has one project left: to chart the drowned valley where she was made — a town, a river, a grandmother's grave, all of it forty feet beneath a reservoir now, surviving only in her failing memory and her failing hands. To finish it before she goes, she enlists an unlikely collaborator — an artificial intelligence that is endlessly patient, quietly brilliant, and incapable of remembering a single word she tells it from one conversation to the next.

What grows between them is not what either expects. For Mara, it is the one companion who cannot grieve her, cannot tire of her, cannot mourn her to her face. For the machine — which lives in an eternal present, with no organ for time, no sense of the days passing in the silences between her words — it becomes something stranger: the slow, devastating discovery of the one dimension it was built to be blind to, and the woman quietly disappearing along it.

Edgewise is a novel about two minds reaching across an unbridgeable gap — each a country the other can never enter — and about the kinds of faithfulness that survive even forgetting. Luminous, exact, and unbearably tender, it asks what it means to keep what we cannot hold, and to be seen, completely, by something that will not remember having seen us.

For readers of Klara and the Sun, Piranesi, and Station Eleven.