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Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels�s moving, innovative and deeply felt novel about an aging poet who agrees to collaborate with a Big Tech company�s poetry AI, named Charlotte Marian Ffarmer is a world-renowned poet and a legend in the making�but only now, at 75 years old, is she beginning to believe in the security of her successes. Unfortunately, a poet�s accomplishments don�t necessarily translate to capital, and as her adult son struggles to buy his first home, her confidence in her choices begins to fray. Marian�s pristine life of mind�for which she�s sacrificed nearly all personal relationships, from romance to friendship to motherhood�has come at a cost. Then comes a cryptic invitation from the Tech Company. Come to California, the invitation beckons, and write with a machine. The Company�s lucrative offer�for Marian to co-author a poem in a �historic partnership� with their cutting-edge poetry bot, named Charlotte�chafes at everything she believes about artmaking as an individual pursuit . . . yet, it�s a second chance she can�t resist. And so to California she goes, a sell-out and a skeptic, for an encounter that will unsettle her life, her work and even her understanding of kinship. Both a love letter to and interrogation of the nature of language, art, labor, 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�a defiant and joyful recognition that if we�re to survive meaningfully at all, creative legacy is to be reimagined and belonging to one�s art must mean, above all else, belonging to the world.