Please Stop Trying to Leave Me: A Novel

An engrossing, affecting, and singular (Publishers Weekly) debut novel about love, family, queerness, and losing your mind in the modern world.While god is sending her signs through Instagram and Spotify demanding she break up with her girlfriend, Norma meets with a new therapist for one reason: she really needs to write again. With only one chapter missing in her manuscript, Norma is desperate to know if she needs to leave her girlfriend in order to write The Last Story. The new therapist diagnoses Norma with Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder, but Norma isnt having it. Its just Oblivion.Haunted by SSRI side effects and life becoming less hazily fictional by the day, Norma has never felt crazier. Does anyone else see the worlds poorly crafted plotline? Like, who even wrote this story? Norma begins sharing her manuscript with her therapist, hoping to connect the dissociative dots once and for allor at least enough so that Google ads stop giving her panic attacks. But soon Norma is questioning everything shes ever believed about life, writing, and love.And then theres Normas girlfriend, the one with a crack of light in her eyes. Could she be Oblivions antagonist, the manuscripts savior? Or is she just a human?Told alternately through Normas barely fictional fiction and her crackling stream of consciousness, Please Stop Trying To Leave Me is an honest, comedic, horrifying, and heartwrenching story about existing in todays world, challenging all weve been taught about the distance between fiction and reality, sanity and insanity, mental illness and healing.