“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 “Bonkers.” – The New York Times “Reliably brilliant.” – The Washington
Post “A wild devilishly curious often hallucinatory ride that’s worth its weight in
insights.” – The San Francisco Chronicle 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
