Overview

In a world where no one is sure who or what is human, Miranda will have to fight to survive, and to raise a daughter who only wants to know the one secret Miranda can never tell... Thanks for Meeting Me Here is a story about a woman finding her place in a political and technological world that is beyond what we're used to. Through a series of disasters, Miranda has wound up with a mix of biological and artificial body parts. Now she and her daughter are in danger because their government is waffling on whether she deserves any human rights. And for her whole life, Miranda loves and is loved by a woman and a man, and each has gone missing from her life in physical and emotional ways. She's determined to find some hope for her future, and to reunite with her beloved daughter as they meet in a tea shop in London to catch up on their troubling past. Bronfman's book offers the reader a ""wide-reaching yet intimate embrace. It is a futuristic novel of kinship, resilience, and purpose, covering many years, deftly touching down with its brief and tangible chapters. The reader is offered a series of intuitively-connected windows that leap across time to conjure the enduring relationship between a mother and her daughter amid cultural and technological changes that extend over their long lives. Their connection must be flexible enough to overcome and transcend many obstacles in a technocratic future that threatens to engulf and consume them.""

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Thanks For Meeting Me Here will astonish you. Reading it feels a bit like being caught in a gentle explosion, or strapped into a dazzling and twisty roller coaster ride-a ride that manages ... to be both elegantly unruly, and deeply moving. I absolutely loved it. Jill Bronfman has written something rare: a futuristic novel with a beating heart. Thanks for Meeting Me Hereleaps through time with the ease and intimacy of memory, tracing the enduring bond between Miranda and Georgia across a world transformed by technology, politics, and a changing climate. Through flash-length chapters that Polaroid each vivid scene, Thanks For Meeting Me Here delivers a kaleidoscopic world that, finally, conveys a sense of hope: No matter what happens, all is never lost. Jill Bronfman's Thanks for Meeting Me Here offers a haunting anatomy of the coming technocratic order. In a future where kinship is tested by an AI-powered surveillance state and the boundary between the biological and the synthetic is blurred by cybernetic limbs and artificial wombs... In her skillful telling, Bronfman challenges us to examine not only who we are but who we might become. And in doing so, she has given us the story for our time. Bronfman's debut novel is a richly woven tapestry of short, concise chapters where each word seems perfectly chosen for maximum impact. Both timely and modern, it is a warning-a bleak landscape of debris filled oceans with AI [or artificial] body parts, and a technologically possible fountain of youth.

Author Information

Jill Bronfman was one of 12 Aspiring Novelists Selected for the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2025, was the Barnes & Noble, National Essay Contest Grand Prize Winner, was shortlisted for the 2025 Moon Meridian Novella Prize, was the Word's Faire, Runner-Up for the Spring Short Fiction Contest 2025, placed second in the Joan Ramseyer Memorial Poetry Contest, placed second in the Westword Craft & Connection short fiction contest, was named a semi-finalist for both the James Applewhite Poetry Prize and The Waking's Flash Prose Prize, and received an honorable mention in the Storm Cellar Force Majeure Flash Contest. Her poetry chapbook, ""Second Cities,"" will be published in 2026. Her work has been accepted for publication in five collections and over thirty literary journals. She has performed in The Bay Area Book Festival, Poets in the Parks, The Basement Series, Page Street, Washington Square Annual Livestream, and LitQuake, and had her story about a middle-aged robot produced as a podcast by Ripples in Space. She has been accepted to residencies and conferences including La Baldi, Looking Glass, Elk River, Squam, WonderMountain, and LitCamp. She is an upper-tier reader for The Masters Review. She volunteers with 826 Valencia and ScholarMatch helping kids write poetry and teens write their personal essays for college applications. She has an MFA from Pacific University and teaches writing at all levels from graduate to kids.

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