Hey, Good Morning, How Are You?

byMartina Hefter, Linda Gaus (Translator)

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Juno Isabella Flock is a dancer and performance artist. By day, she cares for her ailing husband Jupiter, who cannot manage daily life without her. But by night, unable to sleep, she chats online with love scammers: men who confess their love to women on the internet, and then ply them for money. Juno, however, will not fall for their scams.

These conversations offer Juno a heady freedom to be who she wants to be, free from the stresses of her real life: always busy and on the go, always concerned about Jupiter. Instead, she plays games with these men who are lying to her, and starts to tell lies of her own. But then she meets Benu, and an immediate connection forms, despite the distance between them. Just as Juno sees through Benu’s lies, he sees clearly through hers too.

Hey, Good Morning, How Are You? is a profound and moving novel about needs and longing, about truth and connection, and about how far we are willing to go for love.

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
Anne Weber, winner of the German Book Prize 2020

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. In Germany, 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, and is her first work to be translated into English.

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