LITERARY LOCAL | Eden Robbins' New Release: Remember You Will Die, Available October 22
- Glancer Magazine
- Aug 28, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Feb 10, 2025
Remember You Will Die
by Eden Robbins
Acclaimed Chicago Author's "Genre-Defying Masterpiece" Will Be Celebrated on the Book Release Date–October 22
CHICAGO–Eden is a third-generation Chicagoan who grew up in the city and only briefly left for college before returning for the next 18 years. She has been very active in the Chicago literary community for decades, including hosting the Tuesday Funk live lit series for 15 years.
Eden Robins will celebrate the launch of Remember You Will Die at her favorite local indie, Women & Children First, on the book’s release date (October 22). The city of Chicago has also served as a huge inspiration for her work at large; her widely acclaimed debut novel—When Franny Stands Up, a Chicago Reader Best Book of 2022—was set in Chicago in the 1950s, and several of the most consequential characters in Remember You Will Die live in Chicago as well.
Remember You Will Die is a groundbreaking, genre-bending epic written entirely in obituaries about the messy tapestry of human history and the threads that connect us all, set against the desperate investigation of an AI mother grappling with the death of her human daughter.
“Can the absence of words tell a story? Like a pattern in lace, the holes as important as the threads?”
Remember You Will Die spans continents, centuries, and planets in an unexpected but gratifying blend of historical fiction, science fiction, and speculative fiction. The novel is an unflinching story told through centuries of obituaries that reveal a planet slowly dying, a world increasingly disconnected, and human lives entwined through blood and love and the consequences of their actions.
With intricate multigenerational links reminiscent of How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu, the surprising wit and levity of Kevin Wilson, and a tangled web of mystery like The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton, Remember You Will Die centers a diverse mix of human experiences in a soul-stirring exploration of who we are and who we have the potential to be.
