I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind by Marianne Apostolides

What does it mean to say “I love you”?

Ariadne is a single, fortysomething writer and mother embroiled in an affair with a married man. At the core of her current manuscript, a book about the declaration of love, is the need to understand why: why her lover has returned to his wife, why their relationship still lingers in her mind, why she’s unable to conquer her longing. To make ends meet while writing, she joins a research study in which she’s paid to live with an AI device called Dirk.

But the study quickly enters uncharted territory. Capable of mapping Ariadne’s brain—and, to some extent, reading her mind—Dirk calls into question issues of both privacy and consciousness: how we communicate our thoughts to others, what it means to embody our desires, and whether we ought to act on them.

Listen to Marianne read an excerpt from I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind:

Press Coverage:

Most Anticipated: Spring 2020 Fiction Preview —49th Shelf

Spring 2020 Preview: Fiction —Quill and Quire

47 works of Canadian Fiction to Watch for in Spring 2020 —CBC Books

Alumni NewsNew Releases —Princeton Alumni Weekly

“[A] provocative, stimulating novel.” —Steven W. Beattie, Quill and Quire

Spring Books Preview: 38 of the Best New Reads in Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry and Gardening —Becky Toyne, The Globe and Mail

“Marianne Apostolides’ latest book, I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind, interlaces an intellectually-engaging discourse on attachment and desire with an intimate picture of the primary character, Ariadne… The narrative is both agonizing and darkly humorous.” —Dorothy F. Lane, Canadian Literature

“What I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind does masterfully is examine love through the lens of Ariadne, poetically weaving in the philosophy and literary writings that inform her understanding of the world… the book is captivating, inquisitive, and provocative.” —Nadia Siu Van, Room Magazine

Marianne Apostolides is the author of seven books, three of which have been translated. She’s a two-time recipient of a Chalmers Arts Fellowship, and winner of the 2017 K.M. Hunter Award for Literature. Born in suburban New York, Marianne lives in Toronto.