“At once a mind-bending puzzle and a profound meditation on love, fate, ambition, and regret.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Debra Jo Immergut's You Again implicates the reader into a dark mystery that begins with suspicion and ends exactly where it must. Immergut writes this stunning portrait of a woman on the brink of collapse as only she can write it—which is to say, beautifully, intelligently, and full of compassion." - Brandon Hobson, National Book Award finalist and author of Where the Dead Sit Talking
"With mesmerizing deftness, You Again brilliantly reimagines a woman’s search for her lost ambition as a psychological thriller. This book takes the questions of middle age—What happens to an artist’s creative force when she becomes a mother with a day job? Can we recover lost time and neglected passion? Is idealism the purview of the young?—and turns them inside out. An extraordinary book." - Heather Abel, author of The Optimistic Decade
“Immergut delivers a furious page-turner.” - Booklist
“Stunning . . . feels eerily relevant, perfect for this time of deep uncertainty and rapidly shifting news. It is dreamlike and immersive, like falling into someone else’s alternative reality.” - New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice
“You Again will have you rethinking everything.” - Good Morning America (“A Novel to Read this Summer” selection)
"[A] heart-pounding thriller." - Woman's World
"Immergut’s novel pushes at the contours of identity and change, asking how we can recognize ourselves after so many years have passed." - The Millions
"So accomplished, so glorious—a complete original from page one. You may as well buy your second copy now.” - Janet Fitch, author of The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral
Debra Jo Immergut brings her considerable literary talent to bear in this thrilling and beautifully-imagined exploration of a universally tantalizing notion—meeting your younger self! You Again is a swirling, propulsive novel of suspense and a deep dive into time, memory, art, family. Ambitious and enthralling. - James A. McLaughlin, author of Bearskin
"Fast-paced . . . [YOU AGAIN] is at once a psychological mystery, an thriller and a meditation on time and memory.” - Daily Hampshire Gazette
“A mind-bendingly brilliant look at memory, reality, fierce ambition and the lives we could have led.” - AARP Magazine
“Inventive. . . You Again, combining psychological suspense and fantasy, is a family-life novel, an art-world chronicle and an examination of the mutability of reality.” - Wall Street Journal
“An alluring mystery . . . Immergut has constructed her tale as an ingenious maze. . . . Think of You Again as “A Portrait of the Artist as a Not-so-Young Woman,” on a shelf that would include Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs— but with the addition of a mystery as a compelling chaser.” - Washington Post