A gem of a debut novel about a young mother navigating the instabilities of teaching, parenting, and marriage in the wake of the pandemic. With deadpan humor and a keen eye for the strangeness of our days, Negative Space follows a week in the life of a part-time high school English teacher. At home, her two children, increasingly restless in the wake of the pandemic, ask constant questions that flit from the weirdness of television shows to casual conversations about mortality. Her husband, always on business calls with Hong Kong at odd hours, shows up for meals only occasionally. At school, her students seem increasingly disconnected, and some put worrying details of their lives into their creative writing assignments. And then there's the possibly inappropriate interaction she thinks she saw between her boss and a student. . . . Filled with sly observations about our off-kilter days, Negative Space is a witty and resonant novel about the challenges of motherhood, the question of what we owe the people around us, and the search for normalcy in a fractured world.

Negative Space: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Linden, Gillian

Contemporary

W.W.Norton&Company

From a brilliant new literary voice, a collection of stories that follow a young woman from college into her early thirties—from delayed adolescence to (delayed) adulthood. Through college, careers, love affairs, and marriages, Linden’s characters try to sort out what separates the passing from the permanent, the actual from the possible, and exactly how involved you really have to be in the basic questions of your life. From familiar patterns like ambiguous friendships, uncertain love affairs, and unfulfilling jobs, Linden has created something new: a sharp and intimate take on romance and infidelity, trust and betrayal. A deadpan narrative, cool and precise, about hesitation and doubt and how to rid your apartment of mice, Remember How I Told You I Loved You? is by turns witty, moving, and darkly humorous.

Remember How I Told You I Loved You?

Humor & Satire

Little A

“With deadpan restraint, Linden captures the drifting disenfranchisement of post-collegiate life―its pretensions and joys, its cubicles and cats, and all those vegan boyfriends demanding their share of the rent.” ―Caitlin Macy, author of Spoiled“Gillian Linden is a master of the understatement and a magician of the unsaid. These stories are narrated in voices soft in tone, but you’d be wise to listen up. The protagonists appear to be lovely young women, but watch your back. Breezy style belies a dark and devious undercurrent. Consider the ingenious title: Remember How I Told You I Loved You? Whatever comes next, it’s not going to be sweet. This is a memorable collection of stories.” ―Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of The Scenic RouteFrom a brilliant new literary voice, a collection of stories that follow a young woman from delayed adolescence to (delayed) adulthood. Through college, careers, love affairs, and marriages, Linden’s characters try to sort out what separates the passing from the permanent, the actual from the possible, and exactly how involved you really have to be in the basic questions of your life. From familiar patterns―ambiguous friendships, uncertain love affairs, unfulfilling jobs―Linden has created a sharp and intimate take on romance and infidelity, trust and betrayal.A deadpan narrative about hesitation and doubt and how to rid your apartment of mice, Remember How I Told You I Loved You? is by turns witty, moving, and darkly humorous.

United States

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