A brilliant, playful new novel about identity and personality, from master storyteller Helen Oyeyemi.
What if you had to share your body and life with six different versions of yourself, one for each day of the week?
Kinga is a woman living alone in Prague, but she’s never bored or lonely. In fact, every day is something – and someone—new, a different personality taking up residence right on schedule.
On Mondays, you can catch Kinga-A cleaning up, going to work, deleting food delivery apps, and urging the others to get organized. By Friday it’s Kinga E in charge, happy to while away her time soaking in the bath, wine-drunk, until her toes prune.
No surprise, then, that Kingas A-G live a varied life. Between them is a professional matchmaker, a scent-crazed perfumer and a window cleaner, all with varying degrees of apathy, anger, introversion and bossiness. At least three of them are Team Toxic.
It's an arrangement that's not without its fair share of admin, grudges and half-truths. (They’ve never met, but leave one other notes overnight.) But when Kinga A discovers a man tied up in their apartment -- a man none of the selves will confess to knowing -- the Kingas have to reckon with the possibility that one of them might be planning to destroy them all.
A captivating exploration of identity and multiplicity, A New New Me combines Helen Oyeyemi’s crackling, exuberant prose with deep existential questions: What happens when your identities are at war with each other? How many versions of oneself can one self contain?
Genre: Literary Fiction
What if you had to share your body and life with six different versions of yourself, one for each day of the week?
Kinga is a woman living alone in Prague, but she’s never bored or lonely. In fact, every day is something – and someone—new, a different personality taking up residence right on schedule.
On Mondays, you can catch Kinga-A cleaning up, going to work, deleting food delivery apps, and urging the others to get organized. By Friday it’s Kinga E in charge, happy to while away her time soaking in the bath, wine-drunk, until her toes prune.
No surprise, then, that Kingas A-G live a varied life. Between them is a professional matchmaker, a scent-crazed perfumer and a window cleaner, all with varying degrees of apathy, anger, introversion and bossiness. At least three of them are Team Toxic.
It's an arrangement that's not without its fair share of admin, grudges and half-truths. (They’ve never met, but leave one other notes overnight.) But when Kinga A discovers a man tied up in their apartment -- a man none of the selves will confess to knowing -- the Kingas have to reckon with the possibility that one of them might be planning to destroy them all.
A captivating exploration of identity and multiplicity, A New New Me combines Helen Oyeyemi’s crackling, exuberant prose with deep existential questions: What happens when your identities are at war with each other? How many versions of oneself can one self contain?
Genre: Literary Fiction
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