Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
A highly anticipated new novel from Booker Prize finalist Patricia Lockwood offers a dizzying plunge into illness and identity.
Will There Ever Be Another You, arriving next Tuesday, September 23, tells the story of a young woman grappling with a strange affliction in the midst of a global pandemic.
Her body and mind feel undone - the floorboards terrify her, and Depeche Mode’s What Is Love? Baby Don’t Hurt Me plays endlessly in her ears.
She cannot recognise her friends, her family reels from a cruel loss, and she wonders whether the disease has erased who she was and granted her a new self instead.
Time and memory float through her as she writes, “I live completely in the present now.”
This phosphorescent and wild novel blurs fiction and reality in pursuit of human connection amid disorientation and grief.
Patricia’s book has been described as a “vertiginous novel about a woman’s descent into illness and insanity” by its publisher Four Seasons Books
The author of the cult memoir Priestdaddy and her Booker-shortlisted debut No One Is Talking About This is known for her original, inventive and often uproarious voice.
In this new novel, she departs from conventional illness narratives that demand closure or redemption.
