"From the New Yorker staff writer and acclaimed author of Future Sex comes a clever and subtly
scathing follow-up about love sex drugs and techno in our time of rage Everything shifted
for Emily Witt the day she met Andrew. It was the summer of 2016 and her first book would soon
enter the world. A tour through alt-sex in the Internet age it would receive widespread
acclaim for its sharp and aloof critical eye. And yet here Emily was pining for the same
monogamous normy life she once questioned-all because of a techno-head programmer from Queens
who chain-smoked and showered with Irish Spring. Their future together developed unexpectedly.
Over the next four years they would fall in and out of foggy clubs take drugs in bathroom
stalls move in together and build a life. As oceans boiled and wildfires burned Emily and
Andrew retreated deeper into Brooklyn's underground where illegal parties in hollowed-out
offices drowned out the din of a crumbling world. But like even the best calibrated trip it
had an end. Bookended by Donald Trump's election and the summer of George Floyd's murder
Health and Safety recalls these tumultuous years with bracing clarity offering Witt's own life
as a lens onto an American era of dissolution dissociation and rage. With her trademark
critical eye that spares no one-least of all herself-Witt explores how a generation has endured
the indignities of late-stage capitalism and questions whether we still might be saved"--
