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TWICE: A Novel
Is Nim on the run with her ex or his double?
Nim's ex-love returns from Silicon Valley, wanting a book from their childhood. She chucks him out. Moments later, he's back again, one fingertip missing, claiming he's the real Chris and that Nim's first visitor was an imposter, forcing her on a journey where nothing is as it seems.
"Wryly hilarious and utterly bonkers, TWICE is like nothing I've encountered. Imagine David Cronenberg making a horror film after binge-watching Fleabag, and you'll have a general idea of the kind of roller-coaster ride that awaits in Kleeman's delightful horror."
–Dan Chaon, author of ILL WILL
"Dark and dazzling with mesmeric twists and much to say about where we are today."
– Anna Minton, author of BIG CAPITAL
Nim's ex-love returns from Silicon Valley, wanting a book from their childhood. She chucks him out. Moments later, he's back again, one fingertip missing, claiming he's the real Chris and that Nim's first visitor was an imposter, forcing her on a journey where nothing is as it seems.
"Wryly hilarious and utterly bonkers, TWICE is like nothing I've encountered. Imagine David Cronenberg making a horror film after binge-watching Fleabag, and you'll have a general idea of the kind of roller-coaster ride that awaits in Kleeman's delightful horror."
–Dan Chaon, author of ILL WILL
"Dark and dazzling with mesmeric twists and much to say about where we are today."
– Anna Minton, author of BIG CAPITAL
- GenresHorror
384 pages, Paperback
First published June 25, 2021
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Susanna Kleeman
2 books21 followersSusanna Kleeman is the author of TWICE and MY REJECTIONS.
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June 21, 2021
A literary Dan Brown is born. I couldn't put it down. Gripping, vivid and beautifully told. Highly recommend.
June 14, 2021
A techno thriller where I wasn’t really sure that I understood what was going on but neither did the narrator Nim. Twice in one evening her ex boyfriend Chris turns up on her doorstep, the second time telling her the first was an imposter, and clone. He then kidnaps her to find a book from their childhood. There’s complicated codes and off grid living and surveillance and other advanced technology. I found the story a bit overly complicated and because Nim is unsure what to believe it takes a long time to be clear about anything. Fast paced and an interesting theme.
August 29, 2021
I read this book in one long sitting. It's a great, sprawling, engrossing story like the ones you used to stay up late reading until your eyes couldn't focus anymore and the colors of the room changed.
June 20, 2022
I feel sad I will almost certainly never read anything this insane again. A year later I'm still having flashbacks of learning to "scritch".
This is a gritty claustrophobic chase story inducing queasiness through clone antics, a corporate surveillance state with unlimited ways to baffle your sense of self, history, and place, and the pounding pulse of inner monologue that pitch you through Kleeman's technologically captured world, dislocated from nature.
This is a gritty claustrophobic chase story inducing queasiness through clone antics, a corporate surveillance state with unlimited ways to baffle your sense of self, history, and place, and the pounding pulse of inner monologue that pitch you through Kleeman's technologically captured world, dislocated from nature.
June 29, 2021
What a rollercoaster of a read! I couldn't put it down. So pertinent, so much food for thought, so original, funny, scary, gripping all at once. Highly recommended. I personally can't wait to see more from this author.
July 9, 2021
A unique combination of techno-thriller, road trip and conspiracy theory deep dive that keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout. Through the eyes and mind of the protagonist Nim, the reader is exposed to multiple points of view and explanations for what is going on from die-hard scepticism at one end of the spectrum to naive gullibility at the other. Also shines a light on Stockholm Syndrome, true identity and the nature of humanity without ever opting for easy explanations.
July 15, 2021
This is one mess-with-your-head literary thriller with secret codes and games from an unconventional childhood for protagonist Nim returning to become a matter of life and death for her. Full review on my blog here: https://annabookbel.net/twice-by-susa...
May 3, 2023
It gets BETTER and BETTER = this is my 2nd reading and oh boy ..... it not only holds up: now I see so many more levels to this, more in awe of pacing and structure and symbolism Susanna employs!
March 18, 2022
An utterly original book written at 10o miles an hour with flashes of genius. Insight. Conspiracy Theories. Paranoia? The distant past, the near future. Intense. Unrelenting. Orwellian. Cryptic. Important. An easy road? No. A fast one? Yes. Worth travelling? Judge for yourself. That's really the point.
June 20, 2021
I was granted an advanced copy of this text by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Highly disappointed. The book is not well-written at all and the story just falls apart about 3/4 of the way through the text. Ms. Kleeman, please revise the ending of the book prior to publication.
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