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BOMB Magazine | Fiona Mozley by Kate Doyle

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A novel about millennial optimism, and what happens when it collapses.

Awake Awake (Algonquin Books, 2026). When I first met Fiona Mozley in a café in Edinburgh three winters ago—we shared an editor who had put us in touch—she was already the acclaimed author of two novels: Elmet, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Hot Stew. Her third novel, Awake Awake (Algonquin Books, 2026), just debuted in the US. Its narrator, Mary, also a novelist, is visited by what seem to be vivid memories of her own recent past; she rationally knows they can’t be real but is nevertheless obsessed by their seeming implication: that her grandfather heroically assassinated one of…

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