new person

"It completely changed my life. I felt like a new person, alive again. It's not just how I look, it's how I feel and being able to keep up with my son."

“It is surprising that he is back at it, I thought he had moved on and found a new person to harass.”

“He’s a whole new person from when he went in,” she said.

“It doesn’t name an additional new person who could be indicted. I think it’s just a distraction.”

As the title of this adaptation of Atticus Lish’s 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award-winning debut novel suggests, it captures a liminal time in which Aishe, in reflecting on her past while getting ready for her future, is surprised by the arrival of a new person who enters her life and asks her to stay in the moment, at least for a little while.