''A thrill for the sickos among us'' JIA TOLENTINO ''Utterly inimitable'' RAVEN LEILANI ''Tulathimutte is a pervert, a madman and a stone-cold genius'' Carmen Maria Machado LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION An audacious, original and unforgettable 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 thorniest problems of modern life: sex, relationships, identity and the internet. We see a young man''s passionate allyship turn to a furious and debilitating nihilism as he realizes, over thirty lonely years, that his feminism isn''t getting him laid; a young woman''s unrequited crush spirals into borderline obsession and the systematic destruction of both her sense of self and her group chat; and witness a shy late bloomer''s flailing efforts at a first relationship lead to a life-upending mistake. As these characters pop up in each other''s dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways that our delusions can warp our desire for connection. Written with the accomplished authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a losers'' manifesto, Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte radically redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society and oneself. ''A book of mad, madcap genius'' Garth Greenwell ''He writes about these things in the way Anthony Bourdain wrote about restaurants... Tulathimutte is a big talent'' The New York Times Book Review ''Blistering ... takes a magnifying glass to the mind in the internet age'' Vogue ''There''s a volatile thrill to the writing ... snortingly funny'' Wall Street Journal ''Obsessively readable, acerbic, Foster Wallace-inflected'' Vanity Fair ''A master comedian with a virtuoso prose style ... audacious, original and highly disturbing'' New York Times Magazine A Book of the Year in Wall Street Journal , New York Times , New Yorker , NPR , Time Magazine , Vanity Fair , Esquire , Kirkus Review and Electric Literature . ...

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Tony Tulathimutte is the author of Private Citizens and Rejection. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, n +1, The Nation, The New Republic, and The New York Times. The recipient of an O. Henry Award and a Whiting Award, he runs the writing class CRIT in Brooklyn.

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**'The funniest book I've read for a long time'**DAVID NICHOLLS

**'Utterly ruthless'**NEW YORK TIMES

**'Addictive ... I loved it!'**RUFI THORPE

**'Twistedly funny'**VINCENZO LATRONICO

**'Razor-sharp ... impossible to put down'**JACK EDWARDS

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION

Written with the accomplished authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a loser's manifesto, Rejectionradically redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society and oneself.

We see a tryhard male feminist's passionate allyship turn to a furious nihilism as he realises that his feminism isn't getting him laid and a young woman's unrequited crush spirals into borderline obsession. As these characters pop up in each other's dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways that our delusions can warp our desire for connection.

A Book of the Year in Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, TIME, Vanity Fair, GQ, Service95 and more.

A Jack Edwards Inklings Book Club Pick

**'Extremely dark ... laugh-out-loud funny'**GUARDIAN

**'Divinely appalling'**SCOTSMAN

**'Perversely funny'**FINANCIAL TIMES

**'The funniest, darkest thing'**ST. VINCENT

**'Blistering ... takes a magnifying glass to the mind of the internet age'**VOGUE

**'An excruciating examination of modern losers in psychic distress'**THE TIMES

**'Tulathimutte is a pervert and a madman and a stone-cold genius'**CARMEN MARIA MACHADO, author of In the Dream House

'You will be crawling out of your skin' JIA TOLENTINO, author of Trick Mirror

'Mad, madcap genius' GARTH GREENWELL, author of Small Rain