NATIONAL BESTSELLER A “dryly witty” ( The New Yorker ) and “fabulously revealing” ( The New
York Times Book Review ) debut that follows two sisters-turned-roommates navigating an absurd
world on the verge of calamity—a Seinfeldian novel for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally
Rooney. It’s March of 2019 and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold—anxious artistically
frustrated and internet-obsessed—has been living alone in the apartment she once shared with
the man she thought she’d marry when her younger sister Poppy comes to crash. Indefinitely.
Poppy a year and a half out from a suicide attempt only Jules knows about searches for work
and meaning in Brooklyn while Jules spends her days hate-scrolling the feeds of Mormon mommy
bloggers and waiting for life to happen. Then the hives that’ve plagued Poppy since childhood
flare up. Jules’s uterus turns against her. Poppy brings home a maladjusted rescue dog named
Amy Klobuchar. The girls’ mother a newly devout Messianic Jew starts falling for the same
deep-state conspiracy theories as Jules’s online mommies. Jules halfheartedly struggling to
scrape her way to the source of her ennui slowly and cruelly comes to blame Poppy for her own
insufficiencies as a friend a writer and a sister. And Amy Klobuchar might have rabies. As
the year shambles on and a new decade looms near a disastrous trip home to Florida forces
Jules and Poppy—comrades competitors constant fixtures in each other’s lives—to ask
themselves what they want their futures to look like and whether they’ll spend them together
or apart. “A tragicomic portrait of urban millennial life” ( Shelf Awareness ) Worry is a
“riotously funny and wryly existential” ( Harper’s Bazaar ) novel of sisterhood from a nervy
new voice in contemporary fiction.
