DEBRA JO IMMERGUT

A New York Times BEST OF 2020
2021 Gotham Book Prize Honorable Mention
2021 Strand Critics Award finalist
Selected as A Novel to Read This Summer by Good Morning America
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YOU AGAIN inspired a NYC gallery exhibition. See images from YOU AGAIN, a group show curated by artist Franklin Evans, inspired by and based on concepts from the novel, at Chelsea’s Miles McEnery Gallery in summer 2021

Debra Jo Immergut’s stunning YOU AGAIN feels eerily relevant, perfect for this time of deep uncertainty and rapidly shifting news. It is dreamlike and immersive, like falling into someone else’s alternative reality. — New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice, reviewer Sarah Lyall

An elegant literary puzzle... an ingenious maze…and a sophisticated argument about the nature of time and memory…Immergut writes with clarity and compassion about ‘ambitions that refused to be thwarted.’ Think of YOU AGAIN as ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Not-so-Young Woman,’ on a shelf that would include Claire Messud’s ‘The Woman Upstairs’— but with the addition of a mystery as a compelling chaser. — Washington Post, reviewer Lisa Zeidner

Inventive…YOU AGAIN, combining psychological suspense and fantasy, is a family-life novel, an art-world chronicle and an examination of the mutability of reality…. Ms. Immergut provides several brain-teasing surprises—and ties up her theoretical loose ends in a manner that still allows readers the space to wonder. — Wall Street Journal, reviewer Tom Nolan

At once a mind-bending puzzle and a profound meditation on love, fate, ambition, and regret. — Kirkus Review (starred)

Immergut delivers a furious page-turner. — Booklist

2019 Edgar Award Finalist, Best First Novel by an American Author

Selected as a Best Read by The New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, BBC, Glamour, Bitch Media, New England Public Radio, CrimeReads, , The Millions, New York Post

Not a word is out of place in The Captives. What a rare gift. — Katherine Coldiron, Los Angeles Review of Books

A swift, clever two-hander. . . . A novel of ideas — Charles Finch, New York Times Book Review

Ingenious and riveting — Gabino Iglesias, Criminal Element

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Sketched with new set of colored pencils. Thanks for the inspiration @claudialowry_art !

Two ways to attempt to understand humans. The first I do alone, working from online figure-model pics (lovelifedrawing.com is a fantastic site!!). The second happens in a group and I’m honored to be at it again with @center4fiction . Join us? Link in bio 🙏 ❤️.

This is my cousin @mweinbergerr, a nightlife documentarian. He looped us in to a @dreambabypress literary performance night in an old underground boxing gym downtown. On a Sunday night in the pouring rain the place was packed. Human words live.