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Touch Grass
  • Published: 2 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761358555
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

Touch Grass

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2 June 2026
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2 June 2026
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2 June 2026
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‘Charmingly wry and original.’ Georgia Harper
‘Sharp and inventive.’ Books + Publishing

Charlie deletes other people’s worst moments for a living; ironic, considering she’s been trying to forget her own for years.

When her consciousness starts spontaneously ejecting from her body, Charlie becomes the first known case of a bizarre new phenomenon – and the unwilling centre of a global crisis.

And an immortal sheep might be the key to everything.

As disembodiment spreads, corporations celebrate it, governments fear it, and Charlie can’t decide whether she’s losing herself or finally escaping. But the memories she worked so hard to delete won’t stay gone, and the only way to survive a world splitting at the seams may be to reclaim the self she tried to erase.

Astute and inventive, Touch Grass explores identity, consent and the hilariously messy business of being a friend, sister and person – especially when someone keeps editing the footnotes.
  • Published: 2 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761358555
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
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About the author

Mary Colussi

Mary Colussi is an Australian American writer currently based in Sydney. She’s a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the National Institute of Dramatic Art.
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Praise for Touch Grass

Sharp and inventive . . . Touch Grass is a clever and incisive story that holds a mirror up to our era of social media and distorted reality. Through clever storytelling and keen societal observation, Colussi explores the enormous themes of unreliable memory, ego and sense of self, social media and unregulated technologies, and future consequences of current actions. Touch Grass is an immersive and surprising novel.

Danielle Bagnato, Books + Publishing

Touch Grass is an Alice-in-Wonderland experience, transporting you to places as warped as they are recognisable; as impossible as they are real. Charmingly wry and original, Colussi lets us view our humanity – and what might await us – through a lens too sharp to be a looking glass.

Georgia Harper

Touch Grass leads us fearlessly into a future that's already here. Along the way, it offers a vision of our potential ruin that is part warning, part screwball comedy – and a riot of brilliant, incisive writing about social media, body politics and the effects of worshiping false gods. Audacious, funny and anarchic — it dares us to follow.

Jack Harkin, Gleebooks