“Equal parts mischievous, moony, and tart.” — The New Yorker

“Audacious, incisive and very funny.” ― Daily Mail

A masterful story that asks: What if the different sides of your personality had trust issues with each other?

New Day, New You!

Kinga is a woman who is just trying to make it through the week. There’s a Kinga for every day: On Mondays, you can catch Kinga-A deleting food delivery apps. By Friday, Kinga-E is happy to spend the days soaking, wine-drunk, in the bath.

Kingas A–G, perhaps unsurprisingly, live a varied life—between them is a professional matchmaker, a scent-crazed perfumer, and a window cleaner, all with varying degrees of apathy, anger, introversion, and bossiness. At least three of them are Team Toxic.

It’s an arrangement that’s not without its fair share of admin, grudges, and half-truths. But when Kinga-A discovers a man tied up in their apartment, the Kingas have to reckon with the possibility that one of them might be planning to destroy them all.

How many versions of oneself can one self safely contain?

BIO

Helen Oyeyemi is the author of seven novels, including Peaces, Gingerbread, and Boy, Snow, Bird, and of the story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. Winner of the PEN Open Book and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Oyeyemi was named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists.

REVIEWS

“A writer whose style is equal parts mischievous, moony, and tart. Her books occupy the borderlands of realism and fable, where the plausible brushes up against the impossible, and the laws of narrative logic are bent just enough to let in the surreal…Some novels insist on being read as prescriptions for living; Oyeyemi’s simply depicts a process: one splinter of a soul briefly gains control of a body, and goes out to be engulfed by the world.” -- The New Yorker

“Screams ‘commercial break out’ . . . An audacious, incisive and very funny novel about self knowledge in today’s tech mediated age.” -- Daily Mail

“A comedy about the masks we wear, if you will, as well as an existential mystery […] The denouement, when it finally comes, is so gloriously absurd, you can’t help but salute.” -- Guardian

“Any ideas of where the plot might be going will most definitely be derailed by Oyeyemi’s dizzyingly funny narrative. But the story’s crowning jewel is the author’s ability to create seven unique voices belonging to one individual.” -- New Statesman

[H]  Riverhead Books  /  August 26, 2025

0.86" H x 9.31" L x 6.28" W (0.8 lbs) 224 pages