Square Books is thrilled that the brilliant and unique – and store favorite – author Patricia Lockwood will be visiting Square Books for the first time on Monday, September 29, 2025, for her new novel, Will There Ever Be Another You.
A poet, memoirist, essayist and novelist, Patricia Lockwood is the author of the novel No One Is Talking About This (2021), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her memoir Priestdaddy (2017), was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and named a book of the year by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune and The New Yorker, among many others.
Her new novel, Will There Ever Be Another You, the mindbending and hysterically funny account of a young woman losing her mind as she grapples with a debilitating illness, is one of this fall’s most anticipated new releases.
She will be in conversation with Mississippi writer Mary Miller at 5.30pm at Off Square Books.
Praise for Will There Ever Be Another You
“Only such an extraordinary writer as Patricia Lockwood could convey the chaos and madness of the times we are living by putting us inside the mind of a writer who is grieving and mentally ill as she tries to find a new way to be. Immersive and weird, it’s a wild ride..” – Lyn Roberts, Square Books
“Patricia Lockwood… writes with the impish verve and provocative guilelessness of a peeing cupid.” – The New Yorker
“Completely singular… Patricia Lockwood’s body of work is like this: a hymn—or ode, depending on the day—to the painful project of being human.” – The New Republic
About the book
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.”
Will There Ever Be Another You is 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, from one of our most original writers.
About the author
Patricia Lockwood is the author of the novel No One Is Talking About This, a 2021 Booker Prize finalist and one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2021, and the memoir Priestdaddy, one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2017, as well as the poetry collections Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals and Balloon Pop Outlaw Black. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and the London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor.
Will There Ever Be Another You
By Patricia Lockwood
$29.00
Publisher: Riverhead Books
ISBN: 9780593718551
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