'Lockwood has written a roving chronicle of the madness of illness and the frightening porousness of what it means to be yourself in the hilariously profound way that only she could.' - Vulture 'Bonkers.' - The New York Times 'Reliably brilliant.' - The Washington Post 'A wild, devilishly curious, often hallucinatory ride that's worth its weight in insights.' - The San Francisco Chronicle From the Booker Prize finalist and 'formidably gifted writer' (The New York Times), a vertiginous novel about a woman's descent into illness and insanity. Amid a global pandemic, one young woman is trying to keep the pieces together - of her family, stunned by a devastating loss, and of her mind, left mangled and misfiring from a mystifying disease. She's afraid of her own floorboards, and 'WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON'T HURT ME' plays over and over in her ears. She hates her friends, or more accurately, she doesn't know who they are. Has the illness stolen her old mind and given her a new one? Does it