Rejection
by Tony Tulathimutte
Buy on AmazonFrom the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel,” New York Magazine), an electrifying novel-in-stories that follows a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection throws their lives and relationships into chaos. Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the touchiest problems of modern life. The seven connected stories seamlessly transition between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity, and the internet. In “The Feminist,” a young man’s passionate allyship turns to furious nihilism as he realizes, over thirty lonely years, that it isn’t getting him laid.…
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"Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection has been out in the US since September, and will finally make it to the UK in February. It’s a collection of seven loosely linked stories from the author of Private Citizens (“the first great Millennial novel,” according to New York magazine). Expect nihilism, tragicomedy, and provocation after provocation. I liked what Jia Tolentino, writing in The New Yorker , had to say about it: “Not until I picked up Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection did I realize how fun it could be to read a book about a bunch of huge fucking losers.” It is, she added, “a thrill for the sickos among us.”"
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