Hey, Good Morning, How Are You?

THE SPIEGEL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE GERMAN BOOK PRIZE 2024: a woman finds solace in her interactions with internet scammers in this electric and moving novel about communication and isolation, needs and desires, and how far we are prepared to go for love

A triumph of sharp wit and profound humanity ... A divine masterpieceFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Juno Isabella Flock is a dancer and performance artist who spends her days caring for her ailing husband, and her nights chatting to love scammers online. She’s aware of the risks these men pose – she’s watched a documentary about them – but she’s also discovered a heady freedom in these online conversations, and the things they allow her to say.

When Juno meets Owen_Wilson223 – or, to use his real name, Benu - she senses an immediate connection between them, even though theyre separated by thousands of miles. Gradually, they reveal more and more about themselves to each other: about their real selves, and about who they really want to be. And just as Juno sees through Benu’s lies, he sees through hers too.

Hey, Good Morning, How Are You? is a whirlwind of a novel. It’s about yearning to stay young while age marches on; it’s about how to stay truthful while the internet changes everything; it’s about love and desire in all their many, conflicting forms. And most of all, it’s a novel about the way we are all connected, by the same constellations and the same night sky, however different our circumstances.

My book of the year. So sad and yet so funny, so elegant and tender [...] about illness and old age and loneliness and the internet and the beauty of fiction. There hasnt been a more worthy winner of the German Book Prize in a long time Daniel Kehlmann, author of Measuring the World

Its a long time since I read such an unusual, dazzling, idiosyncratic novel, one that tells so much about us and our reality. And its also a lot of funrbb

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