Synopsis
Shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection 2021
‘Wickedly, exquisitely hilarious’ Alexandra Kleeman
‘Open-source desire, self-replicating fantasy’ Tom McCarthy
‘A brilliant and brilliantly strange and strangely funny and menacing debut!’ Sam Lipsyte
In this provocative, bitingly funny debut collection, people attempt to use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of grief, rage...
Details
06 August 2020256 pages
9781529041453Imprint: Picador
Reviews
[An] edgily brilliant debut collection . . . Bringing together emotion and technology, South’s stories are comfortless but very sharp.Sunday Times
[A] brilliantly biting debut . . . In a world that is more ‘connected’ than ever, loneliness is still endemic, hearts break, and melancholy and rage win out over the cool disinterest of machines every time.Daily Mail
Weird and often wonderful . . . a joltingly strange critique of the contemporary moment.Metro
Mary South’s You Will Never Be Forgotten is one of the most luminous, funny, totally thought-provoking story collections I have ever read. Don’t miss it.Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain
