This is the story of K. If youbelieve your life to be as fictitious as K's, if you find yourself within thepages of this book, then you are holding the pen and not me. Attachmentsare broken at birth. Shards slide apart. K: a child put into foster care, a boybrought back to the city, a man who must fight to make sense of his past. Isthere hope to be found in a broken mind? Can the pieces of a life come togetherto reveal an image that's steady? Episodic, fragmented, full of poetry's coiledpower, That Reminds Me is the storyof one young man remembering. It's an entreaty to a lost culture, and a fightfor love, for family, and for the respite of fixed identity. Andin its searing and delicate questionings--of belonging, addiction, sexuality, violence, mental health, and religion-- ThatReminds Me firmly places Derek Owusu amongst the brightest British writersof today.
