'A thrill for the sickos among us' JIA TOLENTINO 'Utterly inimitable' RAVEN LEILANI
'Unrelentingly brutal and gut-bustingly funny and spares no one' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO
'Symbiotically serious and funny' MEGAN NOLAN 'The funniest darkest thing' ST VINCENT
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION An audacious and original
novel-in-stories following 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 tryhard male feminist'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 the Year in Wall Street Journal New York
Times New Yorker NPR Time Magazine Vanity Fair Esquire Electric Literature and more
. 'A book of mad madcap genius' GARTH GREENWELL 'Tulathimutte is a big talent' 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
