Name: Die, My Love
Rating: 4.166666666666667 (12 reviews)
ISBN: 9781999722784

Ariana Harwicz

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018. A manic, bruising stream of conscious portrayal of a mother and wife struggling to maintain both a normal life and her sanity.

Die, My Love

i, today, read this as my act of love, because the love of my life told me once. no, every time. every time he returns to that place. "maybe if you read this, you'll understand." and as someone who does what i'm told, i began to read it.

words that have always floated on my mind. 

perhaps the love of my life didn't know about them. yet. i don't know if my words or their words about me dying are the ones that reach him first.

i long to die. i could do it now. tomorrow. yesterday.

hence, die, my love. i know it better than he does. still, i read it to confirm. that is how he feels. how i feel.

hence, live, my love. i promise, no, propose. us, together.

Magnolia 

i, today, read this as my act of love, because the love of my life told me once. no, every time. every time he returns to that place. "maybe if you read this, you'll understand." and as someone who does what i'm told, i began to read it.

die, my love

die

die

die

die

my love

words that have always floated on my mind. 

perhaps the love of my life didn't know about them. yet. i don't know if my words or their words about me dying are the ones that reach him first.

i long to die. i could do it now. tomorrow. yesterday.

the one that stops me is: my love.

for everything.

for everyone.

for him.

never for myself.

hence, die, my love. i know it better than he does. still, i read it to confirm. that is how he feels. how i feel.

hence, live, my love. i promise, no, propose. us, together.

Gary Homewood

Narrated by a new mother on the verge of madness, battling depression/psychosis in the French countryside. Hallucinogenic, intense and vivid.

Die, My Love

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