Will There Ever Be Another You
A Novel
by Patricia Lockwood
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Pub Date Sep 23 2025 | Archive Date Sep 23 2025
PENGUIN GROUP Riverhead | Riverhead Books
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Description
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.
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9780593718551 |
PRICE | $29.00 (USD) |
PAGES | 256 |
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Featured Reviews

A Covid "novel" unlike any other.
I put "novel" in quotes because there does seem to be quite a lot of autobiographical information in here, and the book really defies classification. Some of it reads like a fever dream, part of Lockwood's long Covid-induced brain fog. I haven't read Priestdaddy yet, but from what I know of it, this story is a continuation, and we get a summary of its contents in this one.
Sometimes it's funny, with Lockwood the queen of putting words together you've never seen in print before in your life. Other times it loses its way and is hard to follow, which partly works as a symptom of brain fog but can be alienating to the reader.
Five stars in parts, three overall.
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