A New New Me A Novel

“Equal parts mischievous, moony, and tart…Her prose offers, in a single page, poetic candor, sly wit, dad jokes, and contemporary therapyspeak.” ― The New Yorker

“Her weirdest and funniest yet — in the best way possible.” ― Los Angeles Times

“Audacious, incisive and very funny.” ― Daily Mail

What happens when the different versions of yourself stop getting along? Helen Oyeyemi’s brilliantly inventive novel introduces us to Kinga—or rather, Kingas A through G—seven distinct personalities sharing one life, one apartment, and an increasingly complicated week.

There’s Monday’s Kinga-A, earnestly deleting food delivery apps in pursuit of self-improvement. By Friday, Kinga-E is contentedly wine-drunk in the bath. Between them: a professional matchmaker, a scent-obsessed perfumer, a window cleaner, and at least three who are decidedly Team Toxic. It’s a delicate ecosystem of grudges, half-truths, and administrative nightmares.

Then Kinga-A discovers a man tied up in their apartment.

Suddenly, the fragile truce between selves shatters. One of them might be plotting to destroy them all—but which one? And how do you protect yourself from yourself?

With razor-sharp wit and startling originality, Oyeyemi crafts a darkly humorous exploration of identity, self-sabotage, and the exhausting work of simply being human. This is literary fiction at its most daring and delightfully strange—a novel that lingers in your mind long after you’ve turned the final page.

Perfect for readers who love inventive narratives, dark comedy, and fiction that takes risks.

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