Other People

From "e;one of the most gifted novelists of his generation"e; (Time), Other People is a tale about a woman's path toward self-actualization.A woman wakes in an emergency room and remembers nothing-not even her own name. She hears a song about a "e;Mary"e; and a "e;lamb,"e; and decides to call herself this-Mary Lamb-until she can discover more about her past.While trying to unravel the mystery of herself, Mary meets a host of characters-a troubled woman named Sharon, a police officer named Prince who seems to know who she is, a man who works at the same cafe as Mary and is deeply infatuated with her. But Mary doesn't know whom she can trust-if anyone at all.In this luminous, electrifying novel, Martin Amis crafts a brilliant metaphysical mystery about the destruction and creation of one woman.