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An "engrossing, affecting, and singular" (Publishers Weekly) debut novel about love, family, queerness, and losing your mind in the modern world.

While god is sending her signs through Instagram and Spotify demanding she break up with her girlfriend, Norma meets with a new therapist for one reason: she really needs…

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1 author picked Please Stop Trying to Leave Me as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This debut novel follows the narrator, Norma, through a series of amusing and incisive therapy sessions as she wrestles with feelings of oblivion, and elsewhere looks things up on the internet, trying to figure out whether to leave her girlfriend and whether she can even finish the book she is writing. Witty, bold, and moving, this is an audacious, innovative and thoroughly absorbing book.

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