NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES THE WASHINGTON POST TIME USA
TODAY VULTURE ROLLING STONE W MAGAZINE AND MORE “Lockwood 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.” – Vulture “God is she funny.” – The New
Yorker From the Booker Prize finalist and “formidably gifted writer” ( The New York Times )
a vertiginous novel about a woman’s descent into illness and insanity. 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. Praise for Will
There Ever Be Another You “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 “The author’s fans will find her trademark humor originality and
depth on full display. This is a knockout.” – starred Publishers Weekly Praise for No One Is
Talking About This “A book that reads like a prose poem at once sublime profane intimate
philosophical witty and eventually deeply moving.” — The New York Times “Reading 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? Lockwood’s first novel is as crystalline witty and
brain-shredding as her poetry and criticism.” — Vulture “Wow. I can’t remember the last time
I laughed so much reading a book. What an inventive and startling writer…I’m so glad I read
this. I really think this book is remarkable.” —David Sedaris “God is she funny!” — The New
Yorker
