★榮獲The Publishing Triangle Award《Shut Up You’re Pretty》作者最新作品

After years of subtle betrayals, two lifelong friends who suddenly find themselves in an emotional deadlock when one abruptly proposes to break up

Best friends of over twenty years, Tania and Margot are preparing to host their monthly Sunday Loaf dinner party, when Tania tells Margot this isn’t working for her anymore - they’ve been entangled for too long, she wants to “unknow” her. But how do you extricate yourself from someone whose family owns the apartment you live in, who has taken you in as their own, even claims you as their “person”?

As Tania attempts to live her life loudly on the outskirts of Margot’s bubble, Margot’s past betrayals become increasingly clear. But she means well, doesn’t she? They had felt like sisters from the start. Or had Tania just been blind to Margot’s antics? Set in the framework of a tense will-they-won’t-they break-up, Tania and Margot get entangled in a rigorous revision of history, their once delicate dance intensifying toward a frantic finale that neither person sees coming.

A taut, piercing exploration of race and privilege, codependency, and the ways in which world-defining friendships can be both beautifully and excruciatingly life altering, My Person is an addicting, astutely observed novel from an astonishing new talent.

 

Téa Mutonji is a poet and fiction writer. Her debut collection of short stories, Shut Up You’re Pretty was a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writer’s Trust Fiction Prize (2019) and Canada Reads (2024). It won the Ebmund White Award (2020) and the Trillium Book Award (2020). Mutonji was a recipient of the Writers’ Trust Rising Stars Award (2022) and received the Jill Davis Fellowship (2021) at New York University where she completed her MFA in Fiction.

 

“Searing. . . My Person is an assured, necessary debut novel from a truly promising writer.”－Booklist

“Téa Mutonji writes sharply about the subtle ruptures endemic to formative friendships.”－ Raven Leilani, bestselling author of Luster