Review: Will There Ever Be Another You?
I really admire the folks who have taken a swing at summarizing Tricia Lockwood’s Will There Ever Be Another You, because it’s such a thankless task. I mean most of the ones I’ve looked at seem accurate – or at least defensible – but none of them really captures the experience of reading it.
A summary is never the totality of a book, but there is so much going on in here in so many ways, that you’re going to leave the path pretty quickly. And I say that with delight. Whatever is going on in Another You, I liked it.
Lockwood is a poet – it says so right here in this novel – and perhaps that’s why so many lines of this book are whole worlds unto themselves. Any single sentence can send you down the rabbit hole. And they just keep coming, those sentences. It is fascinating and amazing that she can also make those sentences cohere into a story that can be incompletely summarized as well.
This all worked for me, but it is definitely a big swing. You’ll know pretty quick if it’s for you.
Strongly recommended.