As we all know, someday we will die. And when we do, there will be an obituary summing up your into life into a couple paragraphs. Author Eden Robins has used (fictional) obituaries to weave together her second novel, Remember You Will Die. Come along in her Big Idea as she tells you about how death connects us all.
EDEN ROBINS:
Like most of us, I have a weird brain. And also like most of us, I sometimes try to hide this fact. It’s easy to favor the more rational, practical side of ourselves because that’s what the world prefers to see, feels at ease around, and rewards.
But I feel most alive when I indulge my weirdness. And the books I love to read are ones that surprise me, that feel like someone is banging on the door of my brain and yelling, “I see you!!” (Not in a creepy way.)
Basically, this is me buttering you up to appreciate my new novel, Remember You Will Die, which is a story told exclusively through linked (fake!) obituaries, etymologies, and “found” news clippings, told out of order, mixing genres with gleeful abandon, spanning over 300 years and two planets, and having no semblance of typical narrative conventions.
Why would I do this to you? And even worse, why did I do this to ME?
This is a pandemic story, but I’ll keep it short…
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Source: The Big Idea: Eden Robins
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