Sarina Dahlan was born into an Indonesian family in Thailand and
immigrated to the California desert at the age of twelve. While
children in the West grew up on fairy tales, she learned parables
through ghost stories, mythologies, and Japanese manga.
A graduate of the University of California, San Diego, with degrees
in psychology and visual arts, she has blended both disciplines in
careers as an advertising producer, a corporate marketing
strategist, and a writer. She lives in San Diego with her young
family and a senior cat. Her debut novel, Reset, was an instant
bestseller.
"Sarina Dahlan wraps moments of clarity and meaning in beautiful
prose while exploring themes of love, heartbreak, and the aftermath
of war. She's never afraid to ask the big questions and consider
what survival costs us, as individuals, or as humans on the edge of
extinction."-- "David R. Slayton, author of the Adam Binder
Series"
"Preset grabs you by the heart and doesn't let go until it's wrung
every emotion dry. Sarina Dahlan has a gift for weaving fresh
postapocalyptic worlds that capture the imagination in the most
beautiful and tragic of ways."-- "Kristy Gardner, author of The
Stars in Their Eyes"
"Dahlan once again works magic with her prose...Preset is deeply
emotional and deeply thoughtful. Heartwarming and heartbreaking.
The characters Eleanor and Eli, and so many of the side characters,
will live with you long after you have finished their story."-- "S.
L. Choi, author of the Blood Fae Druid series"
"What risks will we take to hold on to each other and ourselves,
this elegant and ethereal novel asks. Through her sage
storytelling, Sarina Dahlan richly weaves philosophy, science, and
dystopia through the complexities of the human psyche,
relationships, and the desire to protect what we hold dearest. This
dazzling prequel clutches its secrets tightly as seeds in the palm,
cleverly scattering them for us enchanted readers to follow until
the novel's bittersweet end, which, of course, is only the
beginning. Preset offers a trenchant meditation on what we both
lose and gain when we choose to remember." -- "Jennifer Givhan,
author of River Woman, River Demon"
"A collision of our era's catastrophes fuses a new world, becoming
something rich and strange."-- "Kim Stanley Robinson, Hugo
Award-winning novelist"
"Intricate, imaginative, and often surprising, Preset propels you
through a future of warning, danger, and possibilities."-- "David
Brin, New York Times bestselling author"
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