{"id":152063,"date":"2025-09-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=152063"},"modified":"2025-09-23T17:39:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T22:39:59","slug":"square-books-presents-patricia-lockwood-for-will-there-ever-be-another-you-monday-september-29-at-5-30pm-off-square-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/square-books-presents-patricia-lockwood-for-will-there-ever-be-another-you-monday-september-29-at-5-30pm-off-square-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Books Presents Patricia Lockwood for “Will There Ever Be Another You”\u00a0Monday, September 29 at 5.30pm @ Off Square Books\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Booker Prize finalist and “formidably gifted writer” (The New York Times) Patricia Lockwood for\u00a0 Will There Ever Be Another You, a vertiginous novel about a woman\u2019s descent into illness and\u00a0 insanity.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

About the book\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Amid a global pandemic, one young woman is trying to keep the\u00a0pieces together \u2013 of her family, stunned by a devastating loss, and\u00a0of her mind, left mangled and misfiring from a mystifying disease.\u00a0She\u2019s afraid of her own floorboards, and \u201cWHAT IS LOVE? BABY\u00a0DON\u2019T HURT ME\u201d plays over and over in her ears. She hates her\u00a0friends, or more accurately, she doesn\u2019t know who they are.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has the illness stolen her old mind and given her a new one? Does\u00a0it mean she\u2019ll get to start over from scratch, a chance afforded to\u00a0very few people? The very weave of herself seems to have\u00a0loosened: time and memories pass straight through her body. \u201cI\u2019m\u00a0sorry not to respond to your email,\u201d she writes, \u201cbut I live completely\u00a0in the present now.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will There Ever Be Another You <\/em>is the brain-shredding, phosphorescent story of one woman\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the author\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Patricia Lockwood is the author of the novel No One Is Talking About This<\/em>, a 2021 Booker Prize finalist  and one of The New York Times <\/em>Book Review\u2019s Ten Best Books of 2021, and the memoir Priestdaddy<\/em>,  one of The New York Times <\/em>Book Review\u2019s Ten Best Books of 2017, as well as the poetry collections  Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals <\/em>and Balloon Pop Outlaw Black<\/em>. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times<\/em>, The New Yorker<\/em>, The New Republic<\/em>, and the London Review of Books<\/em>, where she  is a contributing editor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will There Ever Be Another You\u00a0<\/strong>
By Patricia Lockwood\u00a0
$29.00\u00a0
Publisher: Riverhead Books\u00a0
ISBN: 9780593718551\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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