“Disorienting and haunting, in all the best ways . . . a poignant story about love, friendship, and the secrets that keep people apart — and keep people together.”  
—Bustle

“Fascinating . . . A novel of sonorous character study, showing both the limits and allure of truly knowing another person—and oneself.”      
—Kirkus Reviews

“A thought-provoking exploration of love, relationships, and the role of the past in defining the present.”
—Booklist

“Using thriller conventions to meditate on memory, the novel . . . raises pointed questions about just how reliable any narrative of one’s life can be.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Claire wakes from a coma with only fragmented memories, and her struggle toward recovery is both a haunting mystery story and a beautiful meditation on the questions of what, exactly, identity, love and friendship are made up of. Remind Me Again What Happened is a gripping debut novel, and Joanna Luloff is a writer to watch!”   
—Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will

“Remind Me Again What Happened is a profound and elegiac exploration of the relationship between memory and identity, the way one has the power to remake the other. Joanna Luloff is a splendid writer, and this haunting novel is a wonderful testament to her gifts.”
—Laura van den Berg, author of Find Me

“I’m a great fan of Joanna Luloff’s lovely book, The Beach at Galle Road. The aptly titled Remind Me Again What Happened takes it to another level. The novel is a powerful yet intimate, even achingly honest, examination of love, friendship, betrayal, and the limits of repentance. Highly recommended.”
—Peter Orner, author of Underground America

“In The Beach at Galle Road, Joanna Luloff portrays, with exquisite passion and restraint, the troubled history of Sri Lanka. Writing from the point of view of young and old, Sri Lankans and Americans, civilians and soldiers, Luloff takes us deep into a country and a culture. Together these wonderful stories form an intricate web in which we, her readers, are happily caught. The Beach at Galle Road is a wise and profoundly moving debut.”
—Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy

“There are a few Americans abroad in these stories, but Luloff is less concerned with the trials of expats than with the Sri Lankans themselves, for whom the war represents a greater and more permanent loss. This perspective recalls Robert Olen Butler’s depiction of Vietnamese families in his collection, Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. As in that work, The Beach at Galle Road uses the story collection form to its full potential, as a fractured lens that moves in and out of characters’ lives, returning to reexamine those that most deserve attention.”
—Tyler McMahon, Fiction Writers Review

“In her debut, Luloff weaves a montage of stories into a cohesive whole as she explores the roles of tradition and family and the destructive power of war through the lives of each character. Each story is subtly presented and disturbingly believable.”
—Kirkus Reviews