A New New Me

From the award-winning, bestselling "literary pied piper" (The New York Times) who brought us Boy, Snow, Bird comes a masterful story that asks: What if the different sides of your personality had trust issues with each other?

New Day, New You!

Kinga is a woman who is just trying to make it through the week. There's a Kinga for every day: On Mondays, you can catch Kinga-A deleting food delivery apps. By Friday, Kinga-E is happy to spend the days soaking, wine-drunk, in the bath.

Kingas A-G, perhaps unsurprisingly, live a varied life--between them is a professional matchmaker, a scent-crazed perfumer, and a window cleaner, all with varying degrees of apathy, anger, introversion, and bossiness. At least three of them are Team Toxic.

It's an arrangement that's not without its fair share of admin, grudges, and half-truths. But when Kinga-A discovers a man tied up in their apartment, the Kingas have to reckon with the possibility that one of them might be planning to destroy them all.

How many versions of oneself can one self safely contain?

Author: Helen Oyeyemi
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 08/26/2025
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 9.31h x 6.28w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780593718773


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/09/2025
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2025
Booklist 08/01/2025

About the Author
Helen Oyeyemi is the author of eight novels, including Boy, Snow, Bird, a finalist for the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, winner of the PEN Open Book Award.