PLY, Hernan Diaz's electric new novel, follows the Pincher, an orphan adrift in a far-future city whose livelihood depends on siphoning electricity from the grid and bartering the coveted commodity. Rich with Dickensian flare, Ply sends the reader into a distant dystopian future where nature is actively reclaiming the large city in various stages of decay, a thriving underground rave scene runs on pinched electricity, relationships are tenuously formed on an as-needed basis, and survival depends on ingenuity and a large amount of luck. Ply is a wild ride of a novel, captivating and irresistible.