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By: Lisa Ko

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  • CategoryFiction
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Pages29
  • Published2020
  • File size271 KB
  • FormatPDF
  • ISBN9781542010160

Key ideas from the book

  • A reporter’s mistake connects two content moderators who share the same name.
  • The women’s friendship shifts their perceptions of each other’s privilege.
  • Their story examines the power held by the tech company they work for.
  • The short format offers a focused look at work and connection across distance.

About The Contractors by Lisa Ko

Lisa Ko’s 2020 short story follows two content moderators named Sandra Guzman, one in New Jersey and one in the Philippines. A tech reporter’s mistake brings them into contact, connecting women who share a name and a job but live eight thousand miles apart.

Their growing friendship changes how they see each other’s circumstances and leads them to challenge the power of the company they work for. This concise contemporary work of literary fiction may interest readers drawn to stories about digital labor, the tech industry, and women building connections across distance.

About Lisa Ko

Lisa Ko is a Taiwanese American novelist whose work explores family, migration, identity, and belonging. Her debut, *The Leavers*, follows a boy separated from his mother and raised by an adoptive family; it was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Her second novel, *Memory Piece*, follows three friends across several decades, tracing their changing lives alongside shifts in art and technology.

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