Book jacket image for Do You Remember Being Born? by Sean Michaels

Astra House

9781662602320

STARRED REVIEW

Do You Remember Being Born?

If you’re going to narrate your novel from the point of view of a poet, you must be able to think like one, and this is where Do You Remember Being Born? achieves its greatest success.

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Review of ‘Do You Remember Being Born?’

Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author Sean Michaels (Us Conductors) achieves an astonishing level of narrative, emotional and psychological density with his tightly focused novel Do You Remember Being Born? which centers on two minds—one human, one artificial intelligence—as they try to do something that's never been done before: write a poem together. With this edgy 21st-century…

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