An atmospheric debut novel about one lost young woman’s search for another
“Spellbinding. . . . Wholly engrossing.” —Washington Post
Elena, struggling with memory loss due to a trauma that has unmoored her sense of self, deserts graduate school and a long-term relationship to accept a bizarre proposition from an estranged family friend in Paris: she will search for a young woman, Ella, who went missing six years earlier in Thailand, by rewriting her journals. As she delves deeper into Ella’s story, Elena begins to lose sight of her own identity and drift dangerously toward self-annihilation.
Her Here is an existential detective story with a shocking denouement that plumbs the creative and destructive powers of narrative itself.
An Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate and Cambridge Gates Scholar, Amanda Dennis teaches at the American University of Paris. Her Here is her first novel.
- ISBN10 1942658761
- ISBN13 9781942658764
- Publish Date 22 April 2021 (first published 9 March 2021)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Bellevue Literary Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 352
- Language English