"His semi-autobiographical debut, That Reminds Me, was an attempt to understand how he came to be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder: a condition marked, among other things, by intense emotions, self-destructive impulses, fear of abandonment, black-and-white thinking, and an unstable sense of self. The novel, written in an elliptical and densely poetic style, offered an illuminating, if harrowing, account of alienation, addiction and self-harm,"
"An English literature student of Ghanaian heritage, he is at a speed dating event when he meets San. San is strikingly beautiful, and she grabs his attention right away: So, yes, I was in love again, losing balance, stumbling towards an earlier phase of my life. The novel unfolds in alternating chapters titled Twenty-Five and Nineteen, shadowing Marcus at these two ages as he navigates fraught relationships with women, with the parents who put him in care, and most crucially with himself."
Marcus, an English literature student of Ghanaian heritage, is 25 and meets San at a speed-dating event, triggering destabilizing attachment. Chapters alternate between Marcus at nineteen and twenty-five, tracing his childhood in foster care, fraught relationships with women, heavy party life, and attempts to build a coherent sense of self. Marcus carries a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, marked by intense emotions, self-destructive impulses, fear of abandonment, and black-and-white thinking. The voice shifts between raw Multicultural London English swagger and elliptical, poetic passages that render alienation, addiction, and self-harm with intimacy and urgency.
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