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I Don't Think of You (Until I Do)

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Fiction. Novella. Essay. I DON'T THINK OF YOU (UNTIL I DO) is a needed novella of our time. It explores the narcissism inherent in infatuation, exposing the awkward, disorienting state of passion, and articulating the comic nature that permeates the melodrama of our existence. Tatiana Ryckman chronicles the struggles of a long- distance relationship, forming a series of unsent musings to the beloved by the unnamed lover--all while keeping names and gender anonymous. At times funny, this sexy, charged, and deeply felt novella captures what loving from a distance can bring upon all of us.

An elegiac and dirty and horribly beautiful examination of love and the lack of it; Ryckman has written the anti-love story within all of us. A book so earnest and sharp in its examination of heartbreak, it will make you ache for all the people you haven't even loved yet.--T Kira Madden

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ISBN-13:	9781892061812
Publisher:	Future Tense Books
Publication date:	09/07/2017
Pages:	116
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Tatiana Ryckman was born in Cleveland, Ohio and lives in Austin, Texas. She is also the author of two chapbooks of short prose, Twenty-Something and VHS and Why It's Hard to Live. Tatiana's work has appeared on Tin House's The Open Bar, Barrelhouse, Opossum Lit, The Establishment, Nonbinary Review, Flavorwire, and many other publications. Tatiana has been an artist in residence at Yaddo and Arthub, and she is the editor of Awst Press and Assistant Editor at sunnyoutside press.

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★ 10/23/2017
Ryckman’s reflective novella unfolds in 100 tiny, often forlorn chapters, each micro-numbered (from 0.1 to 10.0) and given a page of its own. Through this, form and content merge, as the narrator attempts to absorb the lessons of a failed long-distance relationship and, in turn, understand herself. Some chapters are memories, both lovely—“the corners of your mouth twitching into a smile, you looked at me as if we were already irreversibly intertwined”—and painful—“I remember most clearly the queasy, persistent optimism.” More often, they are judgments or discoveries, made in hindsight, that there was an undercurrent of doubt or impending breakup from the start. “I did an excellent job of disappearing,” the narrator says. “As I tend to do.” The affair goes from first blush, when she, but not he, dares to call it love, through the tiny disillusionments that pile up despite her attempts to ignore them, to the slow disintegration of the affair: “And while neither of us could put our finger on why, the evening got worse from there.” The isolation of each individual entry underscores this haunting story from beginning to end. (Sept.)

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"Tatiana Ryckman has written a wonder; a remarkably accomplished work of such keen observation and emotional complexity as to rival those texts--Maggie Nelson's Bluets come to mind--with which it shares some literary DNA. Ryckman is a ruthless investigator of reckless desire ... I Don't Think of You (Until I Do) asks--newly, stunningly, with precise prose chiseled from stone--what it is we're meant to do when the source of our appetite is beyond the realm of our own cognition, and following this narrator in pursuit of the unanswerable is a reading experience as gutting as it is thrilling. One finishes this book with the simple thought: Now here is a person."--Vincent Scarpa, Kirkus Reviews

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