Awake Awake

“A warm, kindly and beautifully written novel about growing up in a family and in history, about inconvenient memory and haunted repression.”—Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall

“An incredible achievement—a story of friendship, memory, loss, and moral duty unlike any I’ve read before. It’s beautifully written, elegantly structured, and so tight with tension that I paced my office as I read the last fifty pages. It’s a masterfully crafted love story and adventure story and family mythology all rolled into one, and chock full of well-earned surprises; every character and storyline could be its own novel, and yet they come together so thunderously and convincingly that I believed even the hallucinations. It blew me away! You’ll read it in two sittings.”—Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee

"A fascinating novel about our tenuous sense of self, friendship, and more."—Forbes, Most Anticipated "Weird Girl Lit" for 2026

"A stunning jewel of a novel. In crisply evoked scenes, Mozley brings to life all the peril and appetite of childhood friendship, set against the changing political climate of the early twenty-first century. It is a book in which the past lives on in the present, in which history itself proves skittish and irreducible. It is, finally, a gorgeous testament to the fierce bonds that connect us when we are young and the memories that shape not only who we were once, but who we become." —Emily Fridlund, author of History of Wolves

“Awake Awake is a unique, visionary novel about the toll of memory and the power and fragility of the human heart and mind. Fiona Mozley gives a masterclass in the novel form, showing just how much room for invention we still have. I couldn't put it down.”—Kim Sherwood, author of Testament