That Reminds Me

This is the story of K. If you

believe your life to be as fictitious as K's, if you find yourself within the

pages of this book, then you are holding the pen and not me.

Attachments

are broken at birth. Shards slide apart. K: a child put into foster care, a boy

brought back to the city, a man who must fight to make sense of his past. Is

there hope to be found in a broken mind? Can the pieces of a life come together

to reveal an image that's steady? Episodic, fragmented, full of poetry's coiled

power, That Reminds Me is the story

of one young man remembering. It's an entreaty to a lost culture, and a fight

for love, for family, and for the respite of fixed identity. And

in its searing and delicate questionings--of belonging, addiction, sexuality,

violence, mental health, and religion--That

Reminds Me firmly places Derek Owusu amongst the brightest British writers

of today.