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Will there ever be another you / Patricia Lockwood.
"Amid a global pandemic, one young woman is trying to keep the pieces together -- of her family, stunned by a devastating loss, and of her mind, left mangled and misfiring from a mystifying disease. She's afraid of her own floorboards, and "WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON'T HURT ME" plays over and over in her ears. She hates her friends, or more accurately, she doesn't know who they are. Has the illness stolen her old mind and given her a new one? Does it mean she'll get to start over from scratch, a chance afforded to very few people? The very weave of herself seems to have loosened: time and memories pass straight through her body. "I'm sorry not to respond to your email," she writes, "but I live completely in the present now." The brain-shredding, phosphorescent story of one woman's dissolution and her attempt to create a new way of thinking, as well as a profound investigation into what keeps us alive in times of unprecedented disorientation and loss"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593718551 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 248 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2025.
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| Subject: | Authors > Fiction. COVID-19 (Disease) > Complications > Fiction. COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 > Fiction. Estranged families > Fiction. Grief > Fiction. Mind and reality > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Lockw | 31681010435170 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"Amid a global pandemic, one young woman is trying to keep the pieces together-of her family, stunned by a devastating loss, and of her mind, left mangled and misfiring from a mystifying disease. She's afraid of her own floorboards, and "WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON'T HURT ME" plays over and over in her ears. She hates her friends, or more accurately, she doesn't know who they are. Has the illness stolen her old mind and given her a new one? Does it mean she'll get to start over from scratch, a chance affordedto very few people? The very weave of herself seems to have loosened: time and memories pass straight through her body. "I'm sorry not to respond to your email," she writes, "but I live completely in the present now." The brain-shredding, phosphorescent story of one woman's dissolution and her attempt to create a new way of thinking, as well as a profound investigation into what keeps us alive in times of unprecedented disorientation and loss"-- - Baker & Taylor
As a mysterious illness warps her memory and perception during a global pandemic, a grieving young woman struggles to care for her family while questioning her identity, her past and whether her fractured mind might offer a strange kind of freedom. - Penguin Putnam
âLockwood has written a roving chronicle of the madness of illness and the frightening porousness of what it means to be yourself in the hilariously profound way that only she could.â â Vulture
âBonkers.â â The New York Times
âReliably brilliant.â â The Washington Post
âA wild, devilishly curious, often hallucinatory ride thatâs worth its weight in insights.â â The San Francisco Chronicle
From the Booker Prize finalist and âformidably gifted writerâ (The New York Times), a vertiginous novel about a womanâs descent into illness and insanity.
Amid a global pandemic, one young woman is trying to keep the pieces together â of her family, stunned by a devastating loss, and of her mind, left mangled and misfiring from a mystifying disease. Sheâs afraid of her own floorboards, and âWHAT IS LOVE? BABY DONâT HURT MEâ plays over and over in her ears. She hates her friends, or more accurately, she doesnât know who they are.
Has the illness stolen her old mind and given her a new one? Does it mean sheâll get to start over from scratch, a chance afforded to very few people? The very weave of herself seems to have loosened: time and memories pass straight through her body. âIâm sorry not to respond to your email,â she writes, âbut I live completely in the present
now."
Will There Ever Be Another You is the brain-shredding, phosphorescent story of one womanâs dissolution and her attempt to create a new way of thinking, as well as a profound investigation into what keeps us alive in times of unprecedented disorientation and loss, from one of our most original writers.
Praise for Will There Ever Be Another You
âPatricia Lockwood… writes with the impish verve and provocative guilelessness of a peeing cupid.â â The New Yorker
âCompletely singular… Patricia Lockwoodâs body of work is like this: a hymnâor ode, depending on the dayâto the painful project of being human.â â The New Republic
âThe authorâs fans will find her trademark humor, originality, and depth on full display. This is a knockout.â â starred Publishers Weekly
Praise for No One Is Talking About This
âA book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving.â âThe New York Times
âReading Patricia Lockwood raises questions. Questions such as, How can a person understand both herself and the world with such clarity? How does a person experience things so intensely and express them so buoyantly? Am I laughing or am I crying? Lockwoodâs first novel is as crystalline, witty, and brain-shredding as her poetry and criticism.â âVulture
âWow. I canât remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book. What an inventive and startling writer…Iâm so glad I read this. I really think this book is remarkable.â âDavid Sedaris
âGod, is she funny!â âThe New Yorker
