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From 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. A young woman''s unrequited crush in "Pics" spirals into borderline obsession and the systematic destruction of her sense of self; and in "Ahegao; or, The Ballad of Sexual Repression," a shy late bloomer''s flailing efforts at a first relationship leads to a life-upending mistake. As the 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 our delusions can warp our desire for connection. These brilliant satires explore the underrated sorrows of rejection with the authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a manifesto. Audacious and unforgettable, Rejection is a stunning mosaic that redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society, and oneself.
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"This season, my literary accessory choice is Tony Tulathimutte's Private Citizens." - Vogue
"One of the really phenomenal novels I've read in the last decade." - Jonathan Franzen on Private Citizens
"Private Citizens is a brilliant novel-whip-smart, hilarious, and entirely engrossing." - Emma Cline, New York Times bestselling author of The Girls and The Guest
"The first great millennial novel." - New York magazine on Private Citizens
"It may well be time that we start asking whose writing will populate the 'millennial canon.' Tony Tulathimutte's debut novel, Private Citizens, is the answer to that question." - Village Voice
"[A] hilarious portrait of youthful self-centeredness." - The Paris Review on Private Citizens
"Profane and profanely hysterical. . . . [Rejection] is so exactingly acidic, so entertaining in its pathos and humor, you'll wonder how someone can so immaculately peer into the soul of millennial disorder in the way that he does. . . . I have never laughed as hard reading a work of fiction, maybe ever, while also being challenged by the clarity of its tragic dream. Under the microscope, Tulathimutte observes and scrutinizes the anatomy of our delusions, supercharged as they are by the internet. . . . Rejection is brain-meltingly good." - Wired
"The funniest book I've ever read." - Bowen Yang
"Maybe 'love' is too soft-focus of a word for the mix of awe, exhilaration and, occasionally, nausea I felt while reading about the book's unlucky protagonists. . . Tulathimutte writes with virtuosic brio about loneliness and humiliation. I found myself perversely heartened by his depraved genius. His book is what I needed to read this year: bleak, funny and utterly ruthless." - Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book Review
"I can't stop thinking about [Rejection]. It's a glimpse into these dark areas of the internet that are very scary but also really funny and strange and kind of sad." - Randall Park, in The New York Times
"One of the funniest books I've read in years and a smart take on how the internet breaks our brains." - NPR, "Books We Love"
"Scathing, satirical. . . a feast of schadenfreude for the hardy reader, and rest assured that the author isn't about to let himself off the hook. Absolutely merciless." - Chicago Public Library, "Best Books of the Year"
"Gutting. . . Cleverly satirizes a heartless world while nailing what stings so much about rejection." - TIME, "100 Must-Read Books of the Year"
"Uproariously funny and overflowing with decidedly feel-bad vibes, this novel-in-stories skewers modern vices ranging from group texts to dating apps with precision." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Don't let the profanity of Rejection fool you-this is serious fiction. . . [Tulathimutte's] fancy prose style reminded me of Nabokov if Nabokov had been born late enough to become obsessed with porn instead of butterflies." - Mike Jeffrey, The Los Angeles Review of Books
"Flayed open by the author's scrutiny, these characters blister off the page, all of them electric in their rage, their alienation, their tragicomic grossness. Paired with a deft metafictional coda, their voices coalesce into a unified theory of rejection. Perverse, profane, and profound, Rejection will make your skin crawl." - Esquire, Best Books of the Year
"Blazingly perceptive." - Cat Zhang, The Cut
