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A feral shut-in discovers a disturbing internet porn video of what seems to be herself. A seance of coked-up artists summons unearthly forces in a studio apartment. The staircase of an exurban marketing company descends endlessly beneath the earth.
In Aoife Josie Clements’ electric, nightmarish, intricately layered novel, the impossibility of goodness crowds in upon two young trans women barely surviving on sex work and zero-hours contracts. Below the familiar evils of capitalism and the bottomless depths of internet culture, a darker horror awaits. What curse follows these women? What are they escaping? What are they running towards?
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Praise for Persona
“This is the best book I've read in years. Clements walks onto the scene with the skill and confidence of an old master; Persona disgusts its reader past endurance, then breaks their heart before they realize what's happening. It's a churning black spiral of misery, nausea, and anxiety, and woven through it all an infinitely fragile thread of human connection. Clements has written the year's great work of literary horror. This is not something to miss.”
—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt and Cuckoo
“All the walls secrete in this place, grime pulsing and sloughing away like so much sunburnt skin. Clements’ prose is a fishhook laced cleanly through the thick flesh of the thumb—an old pain made unreal and vivid in the sputtering, intermittent, blue-lit blight of now. This is the good shit.”
—Andrew F. Sullivan, author of The Marigold
“Chilling, enthralling ... an intelligent, ungovernable spiral-down-the-drain story that stuns until its bitter end.”
—Charlie Jones, A Room of One's Own Bookstore (Madison, WI)
“Persona begins as an incantation, imbued with a creeping, disorienting dread that draws the reader into its dark waters of delirium, only to drag your head up for air before plunging you deeper into roiling shadows. Eldritch, beautifully personal and (somehow) very funny, Persona presents horrors both earthly and cosmic in a uniquely nerve-shredding way. Aoife Josie Clements' brain is an intoxicatingly terrifying place, and we're all the better for it.”
—John Toews, McNally Robinson Booksellers (Winnipeg, MB)
“An astonishing debut, the Bergman allusion in the title is only the first clue as mysteries unfold and refold, entrapping the reader in a shifting, changing labyrinth of dread. I can’t imagine I will read a better novel this year, it is just that brilliant.”
—David Demchuk, author of RED X and co-author of The Butcher’s Daughter
“Like picking scabs off old wounds, Persona is horrifying, addictive and wonderfully satisfying.”
—Avalon Fast, Director of Honeycomb
Product Details
Publication Date: January 27, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-9643220-6-3
Page Count: 280
Dimensions: 4.5” x 8.00”