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Sep 26, 2023 · Changing my name after publishing my debut novel. By Isle McElroy, the author of the novels 'People Collide' and 'The Atmospherians.'. In May 2021, I hit the high point of my young writing career: I published my debut novel, The Atmospherians. But there were two problems. The first was that I published it under the wrong name.
- People Collide is your second novel, following your 2021 debut The Atmospherians. How was approaching your second novel different from approaching your first?
- At the start of People Collide, the novel’s protagonist Eli awakens one day in the body of his wife, Elizabeth, and later finds Elizabeth in his former body.
- Once Eli and Elizabeth switch bodies, they each experience the lived-in, sex-based experience of the other’s body. Eli-as-Elizabeth must navigate the world in the body of a woman and Elizabeth-as-Eli in the body of a man.
- At one point in the novel, Eli narrates, “We didn’t have sex as often as she [Elizabeth] liked, and her ability to predict my desires and needs embarrassed me.
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Isle McElroy is a writer based in Brooklyn. Their debut novel, The Atmospherians, was named a New York Times Editors' Choice. Their second novel, People Collide, was New York Times Critics' Pick. Other writing appears in The New York Times, New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Cut, Vulture, GQ, Vogue, The Atlantic, Tin House, and elsewhere.
Sep 26, 2023 · Isle McElroy's novel covers a deep exploration of marriage, love, and the ways we know one another — while also touching on how so much of how we navigate the world depends on how it sees...
Sep 24, 2023 · Being, frankly, a little creepy. “People Collide,” the second novel by Isle McElroy, grants an intriguing sort of invisibility to its main characters as well. They are young marrieds of 28 who ...
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Sep 26, 2023 · This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Isle McElroy, whose new novel, People Collide, is out today from HarperVia. In this surreal tale, a man named Eli finds that his consciousness has somehow been transferred to the body of his wife, Elizabeth. The couple had been living in Bulgaria, where Elizabeth was sent to teach through an ...
Isle McElroy is a nonbinary writer based in Brooklyn. Their most recent novel is People Collide (HarperCollins, 2023), praised by NPR as a “deep exploration of marriage, love, and the ways we know one another.” Their debut novel is The Atmospherians (Atria, 2021), called “exceptional writing” by the New York Times.
