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Radically imaginative and intense, challenging language to be slow and fast, soft and hard, drunk and sober, What Are You performs its own destruction and recreation. Hypnotic, dreamlike, lyrical essays tell the story of a woman trapped in a destructive love affair with the universe. Her understanding of power, desire, and complicity must be transformed again and again. Addressed to an amorphous you, Lerman wrestles with the forces of birth and death, creation and destruction-going deep into the subterranean strata of consciousness and back. EXCERPT ""You exist in an endless series of iterations. You keep spinning out and out and out. Sometimes you take the form of a person and people, but you don't stop there. You are the places where people go to enact every hidden, silent fantasy-the cruelty and the beauty too-and you are the fantasies themselves, and the economies that shape and regulate them. In my dreams I never fly, but I do breathe underwater.""

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A beautiful treatise on grief and everything that comes after-the uncertain friendships, the numbness, the regret, and, eventually, the newer, different life. For everyone that's ever grappled with an ending, only to discover something new and beautiful about themselves, this is a touching debut that evokes elements of both Leonard Cohen's The Favorite Game and Max Porter's Grief is the Thing with Feathers. - Jennifer McCartney, New York Times bestselling author of AFLOAT Lindsay Lerman's I'm From Nowhere rages with the quiet intensity of a lake concealing an inferno. I can't help but feel this book took a piece of me with it. Insinuated itself into me, and lingered like an echo in an empty space. Autumn Christian, author of GIRL LIKE A BOMB Devastating insight into feminine consciousness unbound. - Charlene Elsby, author of HEXIS Breathtakingly honest, intimate, sexy, and sad, this book is the soft, subversive voice whispering wisdom in the eye of the global hurricane. I love it immensely. And if you still have a sputtering spark in your soul, you probably will too. - John Skipp, author of THE ART OF HORRIBLE PEOPLE

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Lindsay Lerman's first book I'm From Nowhere was published in 2019. Her essays, short stories, and poetry have been published in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Entropy, Hobart, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. She is currently adapting her short story Real Love-which first appeared in NY Tyrant Magazine-for the screen. She is represented by Abby Walters at CAA.

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