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  • Published: 14 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781728256030
  • Imprint: Sourcebooks Landmark
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99

Remember You Will Die




From the author of When Franny Stands Up comes a genre-bending story told in linked obituaries and newsfeeds over three hundred years about one AI woman grappling with her grief after the mysterious death of her human daughter, and wondering what it really means to be human.

"A reminder, spelled out in boldface, of the remarkable tenacity of life." — Wall Street Journal

"Kaleidoscopic…a fascinating and fresh reading experience." — Chicago Reader

"Can the absence of words tell a story? Like a pattern in lace, the holes as important as the threads?"

A search. A puzzle. Sixty protagonists—all of whom are dead.

Told entirely through obituaries and ricocheting through time, Remember You Will Die is an innovative, genre-bending epic about the messy tapestry of human history and the threads that connect us, told through the eyes of Peregrine, an AI mother grappling with the unexpected death of her human daughter, Poppy.

And from the newspaper clippings of individual lives emerges something else unexpected: generations entwined through blood and art and the consequences of their actions, betrayals and redemptions that traverse our dying world and beyond.

Spanning continents, centuries, planets, and genres, and centering a diverse mix of human experiences, Remember You Will Die is a provocative exploration of who we are and what we could be.

  • Published: 14 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781728256030
  • Imprint: Sourcebooks Landmark
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99

About the author

Eden Robins

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.

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Praise for Remember You Will Die

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
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