{"id":152133,"date":"2025-09-27T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=152133"},"modified":"2025-09-25T13:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:52:03","slug":"square-books-presents-patricia-lockwood-for-will-there-ever-be-another-you-in-conversation-with-mary-miller-on-monday-september-29-2025-at-530-pm-at-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-in-conversation-with-mary-miller-on-monday-september-29-2025-at-530-pm-at-off-square-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Books presents Patricia Lockwood for “Will There Ever Be Another You”\u00a0in conversation with Mary Miller on\u00a0Monday, September 29, 2025, at 5:30 pm at Off Square Books\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Square Books<\/strong> is thrilled that the brilliant and unique – and store favorite – author Patricia Lockwood<\/strong> will be visiting Square Books for the first time on Monday, September 29, 2025, for her new novel, Will There Ever Be Another You.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A poet, memoirist, essayist and novelist, Patricia Lockwood is the author of the novel No One Is Talking About This <\/em>(2021), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her memoir Priestdaddy <\/em>(2017), was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and named a book of the year by The Washington Post<\/em>, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune <\/em>and The New Yorker<\/em>, among many others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her new novel, Will There Ever Be Another You, <\/em>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\u2019s most anticipated new releases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She will be in conversation with Mississippi writer Mary Miller<\/strong> at 5.30pm at Off Square Books. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Praise for Will There Ever Be Another You\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnly 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..\u201d \u2013 Lyn Roberts, Square Books <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPatricia Lockwood\u2026 writes with the impish verve and provocative guilelessness of a peeing cupid.\u201d \u2013 The New Yorker <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCompletely singular\u2026 Patricia Lockwood\u2019s body of work is like this: a hymn\u2014or ode, depending on the day\u2014to the painful project of being human.\u201d \u2013 The New Republic <\/em><\/p>\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 pieces\u00a0together \u2013 of her family, stunned by a devastating loss, and of her mind,\u00a0left mangled and misfiring from a mystifying disease. She\u2019s afraid of her\u00a0own floorboards, and \u201cWHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON\u2019T HURT ME\u201d plays\u00a0over and over in her ears. She hates her friends, or more accurately, she\u00a0doesn\u2019t know who they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has the illness stolen her old mind and given her a new one? Does it mean she\u2019ll 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. \u201cI\u2019m sorry not to respond to your email,\u201d she writes, \u201cbut I live completely in the present now.” <\/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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