This Is How You Remember It
by Catherine Prasifka
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Pub Date Sep 09 2025 | Archive Date Sep 04 2025
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Description
A potent and compulsive novel about the dangers of growing up online, from the author of the Irish Book Awards-nominated None of This is Serious.
You're nine when you get your first computer. 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. 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 about a life lived online - and about finding another way when it's all you've ever known.
Advance Praise
"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 Hennessey
"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
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781837260584 |
| PRICE | CA$19.99 (CAD) |
| PAGES | 288 |
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Featured Reviews
Reviewer 1583924
Thank you, Net Galley and Canongate, for the opportunity to read and review this arc.
This honestly might have to be the most haunting read of the year for me. The story was written and progressed in such a way that it felt as though the author had insight into the lives of myself and many other girls growing up online at a young age. The fact that it had been written in second person further contributed to this feeling as déjà vu or nostalgia at reminiscing upon those early formative years online. Even down to the usage of the hole as a device for the protagonist’s trauma and losing parts of herself had been tactfully depicted.
