Her Here

Elena, who is dealing with memory loss from a trauma, accepts a strange offer from a family friend in Paris to rewrite her journals in order to find a missing girl named Ella. As she investigates Ella's story, Elena loses sight of her own identity and falls into self-destruction. Her Here is an existential detective story that explores the creative and destructive powers of narrative.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 25 March 2021
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press

"Spellbinding. . . . Wholly engrossing." — Washington Post

Elena, grappling with the aftermath of a traumatic incident that has left her with memory loss and a fragmented sense of self, abandons her graduate studies and a long-term relationship to accept a peculiar proposition from an estranged family friend in Paris. She is tasked with embarking on a mission to locate a young woman named Ella, who vanished six years ago in Thailand, by rewriting her journals. As Elena delves deeper into Ella's story, she gradually loses touch with her own identity and teeters on the edge of self-destruction.

Her Here is an existential detective tale that uncovers the profound and destructive nature of storytelling. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and a Cambridge Gates Scholar, Amanda Dennis teaches at the American University of Paris. Her Here marks her debut novel.

Weight: 418g
Dimension: 141 x 210 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781942658764