This Is How You Remember It
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Canongate Books
Published:2nd May '24
Should be back in stock very soon
AN IRISH TIMES FICTION BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024
You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you spend hours in the chatroom. You don't understand why some of your online friends don't use their real names.
It's not long before you discover porn. You don't know what you're watching, but you do know that you shouldn't tell anybody. Later, older, your first kiss is captured on camera and shared with everyone in your year. It feels like betrayal, but soon it feels normal. Part of the incessant cycle of posting, sharing and liking.
Now, you can't remember a time when you didn't feel hollow inside. Now, you know that something has to change.
Chilling, potent and intensely intimate, This is How You Remember It is at once a cautionary tale, a call to arms and a tender love story. It is about a life lived online, and about finding another way, when it's all you've ever known.
It is an essential document. I wish it wasn't. I'm so glad it exists -- JO HAMYA * * Guardian * *
A potent time capsule, a depiction of millennials as a lost generation . . .[A] powerful cautionary tale * * Irish Independent * *
A coming-of-age story written with the oppressive propulsion of a thriller * * Sunday Telegraph * *
Consent looms large over the novel, and how it intertwines with the ways girls are conditioned to think about their bodies * * Sunday Times * *
Punchy * * Mail on Sunday * *
Prasifka does not pull her punches * * Herald * *
Smart, insightful and compassionate. A gorgeous book with both brains and heart -- CLAIRE HENNESSY
Beautifully written, intense, intimate and impactful. A unique and important novel with a strong and vital purpose, which has stayed with me long after I turned the last page -- ANYA BERGMAN
Humane, powerful, compassionate and unsparing, this is a book for our times -- ROSEMARY HENNIGAN
A powerful exploration of sex and sexuality and porn and relationships and love and friendship . . . Unnerving and strangely comforting in equal measure -- LOUISE O’NEILL
ISBN: 9781805300991
Dimensions: 222mm x 130mm x 25mm
Weight: 390g
288 pages
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