In When the Real Is No Longer What It Used To Be, Mu Koch draws likenesses between chemical transformations of matter, the perishability of bodies and the alchemical, surreal nature of the universe. The binary between life and death, between self and other is dismantled and explored across a fantastical voyage into dream-worlds and childhood memories, traversing the treacherous waters of the sensical to reach the warmer, safer haven of the nonsensical. 

Across the landscape of this book, our narrator recounts the final days spent with a mentor who taught her how to navigate reality. She processes her mentor’s death by weaving a tapestry out of grief, loss, and memory, rot, disintegration, and putrefaction, autolysis, autopoiesis, and cellular metabolism, volcanic ash, arid islands, and disappearing stars, to discover the porosity at the heart of matter. 



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