My Person
The witty, razor-sharp debut novel about a big BFF break-up
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My Person
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Téa Mutonji
About this listen
'Nuanced and fearless . . . Told with subtlety and verve' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS
'Sexy, infuriating, and unbelievably fun . . . This is a writer who can read someone to filth in just one line' KATIE YEE
'I want to, like, I don't know how else to say it but, I want to unknow you.'
A moment of silence. Then Margot started laughing.
Tania and Margot, best friends for over twenty years, are preparing to host their monthly dinner party when Tania tells Margot this isn't working for her anymore. But how do you extricate yourself from someone whose family owns your apartment, who has taken you in as their own, even claims you as their 'person'?
In the midst of a tense will-they-won't-they break-up, Tania and Margot become entangled in a rigorous revision of history, their once delicate dance intensifying toward a frantic finale. As Margot disappears herself and Tania spirals into sex and drugs, they're forced to reckon with where it all went wrong . . . or whether they were simply wrong for each other to begin with.
A taut, piercing exploration of girlhood and identity, and the ways in which world-defining friendships can be both beautiful and excruciating, My Person is an addictive, astutely observed novel from a major new talent.©2026 Ngombe Téa Mutonji (P)2026 Penguin Random House Audio
Critic Reviews
Téa Mutonji writes sharply about the subtle ruptures endemic to formative friendships (Raven Leilani, author of LUSTER)
A nuanced and fearless exploration of friendship, family, race and class, and the extraordinary pressures of coming of age as an artist, told with subtlety and verve (Nussaibah Younis, author of FUNDAMENTALLY)
Thank god for Téa Mutonji. Her new novel, My Person, covers the tricky territory of two lifelong friends extricating themselves from each other's lives. It sounds sad, and it is, but it's also sexy, infuriating, and unbelievably fun to read. You can tell you're in the hands of a poet; the writing crackles on the page. This is a writer who can read someone to filth in just one line. If you've ever known the pain of a friend breakup, this one's for you. Téa Mutonji has managed to take some of the ugliest thoughts and worst moments and turn it into a sparkling novel about reclaiming your sense of self (Katie Yee, author of MAGGIE)
A novel unlike anything I've read before, teeming with pathos, authenticity and wit. On the surface My Person is about friendship - the intimacy, the codependency, the envy, the rage and the love - but also it's a novel about a Black girl who dares to behave badly, to shun the expectations of those around her and search for freedom while in a freefall. My Person is sexy, hilarious, devastating and compulsively readable. I downed it in one sitting like a shot of hard liquor, savouring the burn. An explosive debut from a once-in-a-generation talent. (Jasmine Sealy, author of THE ISLAND OF FORGETTING)
In her searing debut novel, Téa Mutonji delivers an unflinching portrait of female friendship in all its ferocity and tenderness. Mutonji traces the bond between two young women whose relationship is as sustaining as it is suffocating, as loving as it is destructive. Visceral and impossible to shake, My Person announces an essential new voice in contemporary fiction (Carley Fortune, author of EVERY SUMMER AFTER)
Witty and sexy and an extraordinarily intimate story of identity and lifelong relationships. Mutonji has a singular talent for writing beautiful, thought-provoking, challenging prose without ever losing momentum on the page. This novel is populated with very real, complicated characters navigating race and privilege and their impact on friendship, chosen and biological family, and self. Mutonji's voice is distinctive and self-assured, precise and personal, and My Person is a remarkable accomplishment. (Fawn Parker, author of HI, IT'S ME)
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