The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It s Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife Adrift yet keenly aware she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known where she loved and was loved Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space heading always west and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying hilarious and heartbreaking situation after another A tale for our dispossessed times and one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years It Lasts Forever and Then It s Over plumbs mortality and how it changes everything except possibly love
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Es escritora, artista y editora. Publicó su primer libro, la novela corta lírica The Accident, en 2020. Su segunda obra, Dura una eternidad y en un instante se acaba, se alzó con el Novel Prize y el Premio de Ficción Ursula K. Le Guin en 2024. De Marcken vive en Olympia, Washington, donde dirige la pequeña e innovadora editorial The 3rd Thing.