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Would You Take Life Advice from a Zombie?

Reviewing Anne de Marcken’s ‘It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over’

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Joel J Miller
Mar 15, 2025
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How much of your life could you lose before you lose yourself? She lost her arm, the left one. She tries to keep it for a while but eventually has to give it up. Like her name. And her life partner. And almost everything else. Anne de Marcken’s unnamed narrator in It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over is dead.

But not entirely so.

Anne de Marcken, It Lasts…
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