Join us for an evening with Catherine Prasifka, who will be discussing her latest chilling and intensely intimate novel This Is How You Remember It.
You’re nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you spend hours in the chatroom. You don’t understand why some of your online friends don’t use their real names.
It’s not long before you discover porn. You don’t know what you’re watching, but you do know that you shouldn’t tell anybody. Later, older, your first kiss is captured on camera and shared with everyone in your year. It feels like betrayal, but soon it feels normal. Part of the incessant cycle of posting, sharing and liking.
Now, you can’t remember a time when you didn’t feel hollow inside. Now, you know that something has to change.
Chilling, potent and intensely intimate, This is How You Remember It is at once a cautionary tale, a call to arms and a tender love story. It is about a life lived online, and about finding another way, when it’s all you’ve ever known.
‘Smart, insightful and compassionate. A gorgeous book with both brains and heart’ - Claire Hennessy
‘Beautifully written, intense, intimate and impactful. A unique and important novel with a strong and vital purpose, which has stayed with me long after I turned the last page’ - Anya Bergman
Don't forget to include a copy of This Is How You Remember It with your ticket. There will be a book signing following the discussion. Join us from 18:00 for a welcome drink!
Catherine Prasifka was born in Dublin. Her debut novel, None of This Is Serious, was a bestseller and was picked as ‘one to watch’ for 2022 by the Irish Times, Stylist and the Irish Independent. She holds a BA in English Literature from Trinity College Dublin, an MLitt in Fantasy Literature from the University of Glasgow and an MA in Irish Folklore and Ethnology from University College Dublin. In 2024, Catherine was appointed as Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.
Chloë Ashby is an author and arts critic who has written for publications such as The Times, TLS, Guardian, Spectator and frieze. She is the author of the novels Wet Paint (2022) and Second Self (2023), as well as Colours of Art: The Story of Art in 80 Palettes (2022).
