Offsite: Patricia Lockwood at Haymarket House

Join us at Haymarket House on Sunday, October 12th at 7pm CT for an event with Patricia Lockwood to celebrate the release of Will There Ever Be Another You. For this event, Patricia will be joined in conversation by Lindsay Hunter.

This is a ticketed event that will be held at Haymarket House (800 W. Buena Ave). This event will include a conversation and book signing. Masks are required for this event.

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 presentnow."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.

Patricia Lockwood is the author of the novel No One Is Talking About This, a 2021 Booker Prize finalist and one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2021, and the memoir Priestdaddy, one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2017, as well as the poetry collections Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals and Balloon Pop Outlaw Black. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and the London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor.

Lindsay Hunter is the author of two story collections and three novels. Her latest novel, Hot Springs Drive, won the Chicago Review of Books Fiction Award and was named a top thriller of 2023 by the Washington Post. She lives in Chicago with her family.

Accessibility: This event will be hosted at Haymarket House, which is a fully wheelchair accessible space. Masks are required for our in-person events. To request ASL-interpretation for this event, please email [email protected] at least 14 days before the event. To request a complimentary scholarship ticket to this event, please email [email protected].

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