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\nAbout the book:
\n"Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize\ , this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider our memory\, of our bodies\, of the world as we know it. How much of what we love can w e lose before we are lost? And then what happens? This third perspective o n myself is disconcerting. \; The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It&rsquo\;s Over \; is voraciously alive in th e afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware\, she notes every bizarre detail of h er new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what co nnects her to her humanity\, she remembers with an implacable and nearly u nbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known\, where s he loved and was loved. Traveling across the landscapes of time and of spa ce\, heading always west\, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest\, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying\, hilarious\, and heartbreaking situa tion after another. A bracing writer of great nerve and verve\, Anne de Ma rcken bends reality (and the reader&rsquo\;s mind) with throwaway assuranc e. It Lasts Forever and Then It&rsquo\;s Over plumbs mortality and how it changes everything\, except possibly love. Delivering a near-Beckettian wh opping to the reader&rsquo\;s imagination\, this is one of the sharpest an d funniest novels of recent years\, a tale for our dispossessed times."
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