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Hey, Good Morning, How are you?

byMartina Hefter, Linda Gaus (Translator)

Juno Isabella Flock is a middle-aged dancer and performance artist who spends her days caring for her husband, and her nights chatting to love scammers online. She’s aware of the risks these men pose – she’s watched a documentary about them – but she’s also discovered a heady freedom in these online conversations, and the lies – and truths – they allow her to release.


And then Juno meets Owen_Wilson223 – or, to use his real name, Benu. Although separated by thousands of miles, they sense an immediate connection between them, and gradually begin to reveal more and more about themselves to each other: about their real selves, and about who they really want to be. And just as Juno sees through Benu’s lies, he sees through hers too.


Hey, Good Morning, How Are You? is a whirlwind of a novel. It’s about yearning to stay young while age marches on; it’s about how to stay truthful while the internet changes everything; it’s about love and desire in all their many, conflicting forms. And most of all, it’s a novel about the way we are all connected, by the same constellations and the same night sky, however different our circumstances.

A book like a tightrope walk without a net: a sheer drop to the left, a sheer drop to the right, you want to look away but you can’t and you don’t need to, because as long as Martina Hefter is telling this story, as long as her thoughts are so luminous and life and desire are so in- tense, nothing can happen

German Book Prize Jury 2024

About Martina Hefter

Martina Hefter is an author and performer based in Leipzig. Her texts move between poetry,
scenic forms of writing, and novelistic writing. She stages many of her texts in collaboration with other artists. She has published three novels, and five volumes of poetry. Her novel Hey, Good Morning, How Are You? won the German Book Prize in 2024.
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  • Imprint: Fig Tree
  • ISBN: 9780241772683
  • Length: 256 pages
  • Price: £14.99
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