Amiga

Literature & Fiction

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Synopsis

To deal with her present, she must face her past. In 1985, a young Laura Rodriguez goes to Silicon Valley to start a career as a computer programmer. She finds a job at a quirky startup run by a family with secrets. In 2016, a now middle-aged Laura faces growing professional and family crises and the most divisive presidential election in recent history. She fears losing her job in the wake of a merger, and she distrusts her new millennial boss. Her daughter has cancer, her son quit a lucrative programming job and moved back home, and her marriage is crumbling—especially when an old flame reenters her life. Laura must seek solutions from a past she wants to forget. She may find them in the computer that changed her life, the Amiga.

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Author Biography

Matthew Arnold Stern is a Southern California native who grew up in Reseda and lives in Orange County. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from California State University, Northridge. The Remainders is his second novel published by Black Rose Writing. His debut with Black Rose Writing, Amiga, was called “a brilliantly plotted, well-crafted historical novel” and “a good and entertaining read.” He earned awards for his writing and public speaking, including Distinguished Toastmaster and an Award of Excellence from the International Online Communications Competition. He is married with two children, a granddaughter, and lots of cats.

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Author Insight

You have lovely kneecaps.

Laura meets her fellow programmer for the first time in the most awkward way. Find out more in Amiga.

Book Excerpt

Amiga

Standing in front of me was a man I hadn’t seen before in that house. His light blond hair was mixed up in a wild case of bedhead. His white t-shirt and gray sweat pants sagged loosely on him. He had a rounded face with a small mouth and a barely visible chin. He straightened his aviator glasses.

“Laura?”

“Yes?”

He glanced at my legs. “You have lovely kneecaps.”

“Um…thanks?”

“Will you help me with a problem?” He extended his arm towards his room.

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Matthew Arnold Stern

Amiga

Synopsis

Author Biography

Author Insight

You have lovely kneecaps.

Laura meets her fellow programmer for the first time in the most awkward way. Find out more in Amiga.

Book Excerpt

Amiga

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