This is How You Remember It
Catherine Prasifka
AN IRISH TIMES FICTION BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024
You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you spend hours in the chatroom. You don't understand why some of your online friends don't use their real names.
It's not long before you discover porn. You don't know what you're watching, but you do know that you shouldn't tell anybody. Later, older, your first kiss is captured on camera and shared with everyone in your year. It feels like betrayal, but soon it feels normal. Part of the incessant cycle of posting, sharing and liking.
Now, you can't remember a time when you didn't feel hollow inside. Now, you know that something has to change.
Chilling, potent and intensely intimate, This is How You Remember It is at once a cautionary tale, a call to arms and a tender love story. It is about a life lived online, and about finding another way, when it's all you've ever known.
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Reviews for This is How You Remember It
JO HAMYA
Guardian
A potent time capsule, a depiction of millennials as a lost generation . . .[A] powerful cautionary tale
Irish Independent
A coming-of-age story written with the oppressive propulsion of a thriller
Sunday Telegraph
Consent looms large over the novel, and how it intertwines with the ways girls are conditioned to think about their bodies
Sunday Times
Punchy
Mail on Sunday
Prasifka does not pull her punches
Herald
Smart, insightful and compassionate. A gorgeous book with both brains and heart
CLAIRE HENNESSY Beautifully written, intense, intimate and impactful. A unique and important novel with a strong and vital purpose, which has stayed with me long after I turned the last page
ANYA BERGMAN Humane, powerful, compassionate and unsparing, this is a book for our times
ROSEMARY HENNIGAN A powerful exploration of sex and sexuality and porn and relationships and love and friendship . . . Unnerving and strangely comforting in equal measure
LOUISE O’NEILL