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Synopses & Reviews
Poppy Fletcher is just another teenage statistic. Death by suicide. Drowning. Her mother left to wander through a maze of grief. But this is no ordinary mother. She is Peregrine, an AI walking the earth in a (nearly) human body, misunderstood, loathed, feared. A fugitive whose home is nowhere.
And this is no ordinary story of grief.
Because the feeling is so foreign to Peregrine, she turns to human obituaries to help her understand her own suffering. By piecing together a tapestry of human lives throughout history, Peregrine begins to unravel the truth of what actually happened to Poppy—and it takes her places she never could have imagined.
Through the miasma of grief, Peregrine finds a story of art and love and betrayal, greed and war, and redemption that spans several centuries, traverses our dying planet and beyond, and ultimately helps her understand her role in the world.
Review
"Emotionally powerful, witty, and razor sharp, Remember You Will Die is unlike anything you’ve read before. Eden Robins has created a new epistolary literary form, one custom made for our dark times. It feels both dystopian and full of hope, classic and groundbreaking, and it will leave you changed. Brilliant." — Ann Dávila Cardinal, author of We Need No Wings
"An audacious and unforgettable tale that reminds us what the novel can do, Remember You Will Die captures the exhilaration, heartbreak, and passion of a life fully lived." — Stephanie Feldman, author of Saturnalia
"In Eden Robins' eerie and poignant Remember You Will Die, we follow an AI woman, Peregrine, as she attempts to understand what happened to her human child. Did she die? Did she disappear? And what does it mean to die, to disappear? Peregrine learns what it means to grieve as she travels all of history via a cache of obituaries and etymologies, searching for clues about her child. By the end, I was gobsmacked, awed. Eden Robins has given us an instant classic." — Lindsay Hunter, author of Hot Springs Drive
About the Author
Eden Robins is the author of the novel When Franny Stands Up, which was named a best book of 2022 by the Chicago Reader and a best queer book of 2022 by Autostraddle. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Slate, USA Today, LA Review of Books, Catapult, and others. She is currently a school crossing guard, and previously, she sold sex toys, crafted jokes for Big Pharma, and wrote cognitive behavioral therapy for an AI chatbot. She lives in Chicago, has been to the bottom of the ocean, and will never go to space.