Remember You Will Die: A Novel

Written by Eden Robins

Narrated by Henriette Zoutomou

"Can the absence of words tell a story? Like a pattern in lace, the holes as important as the threads?"



A search. A puzzle. Sixty protagonists—all of whom are dead.



Told entirely through obituaries and ricocheting through time, Remember You Will Die is an innovative, genre-bending epic about the messy tapestry of human history and the threads that connect us, told through the eyes of Peregrine, an AI mother grappling with the unexpected death of her human daughter, Poppy.



And from the newspaper clippings of individual lives emerges something else unexpected: generations entwined through blood and art and the consequences of their actions, betrayals and redemptions that traverse our dying world and beyond.



Spanning continents, centuries, planets, and genres, and centering a diverse mix of human experiences, Remember You Will Die is a provocative exploration of who we are and what we could be.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Oct 22, 2024
• ISBN: 9798855545340

Eden Robins

Eden Robins is the author of the novel When Franny Stands Up, which was named a best book of 2022 by the Chicago Reader and a best queer book of 2022 by Autostraddle. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Slate, USA Today, LA Review of Books, Catapult, and others. She is currently a school crossing guard, and previously, she sold sex toys, crafted jokes for Big Pharma, and wrote cognitive behavioral therapy for an AI chatbot. She lives in Chicago, has been to the bottom of the ocean, and will never go to space.

Reviews for Remember You Will Die

[brockley-960713 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I loved the idea and I'm disappointed that this never clicked for me. I get what Robins was aiming for and enjoyed some of the individual character pieces but for an epistolary work the voices never felt varied enough and I didn't get the sense that it had really built to something by the end.

[zephcraven · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The prose was really nice. The format led me to confusion a few times, but I don't think it mattered. Not as sci-fi as it seems, barring a few sections. A lovely book.