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You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine ''An original mind brimming over with invention'' Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet A darkly funny debut novel about work, debt and how we live now, from a thrilling new voice in fiction. Jonathan Abernathy is a loser. Unemployed, behind on his student loan payments and a self-declared failure, the only thing Abernathy has in abundance is debt. When a government loan forgiveness programme offers Abernathy a job he can literally do in his sleep, he thinks he''s found his big break. He finds himself auditing the dreams of white-collar workers, flagging their anxieties for removal so they''ll be more productive. If Abernathy can appear to be competent at this new job, might he have a chance at a new life? As Abernathy tries to find his footing, reality and morality begin to warp around him. Soon, the lines between life and work, right and wrong, and even sleep and consciousness, have blurred and he begins to wonder just what he might have signed away... Wildly imaginative, funny, heart-breaking and full of close-to-the-bone truths, Molly McGhee''s debut novel introduces us to a hapless anti-hero who is shockingly relatable. After all, like Jonathan Abernathy, aren''t we also kind and good and talented? Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is the cult workplace novel that''s like nothing else you''ve read before. ''A fearlessly inventive and exquisitely poised writer ... incisive, and, most importantly, riotously funny'' Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine ''Vacillating between humor and heartbreak at breakneck speeds, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is a rare novel that truly feels like it could''ve only been written by a single brilliant mind'' Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl ...
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'McGhee brilliantly articulates the neuroses of a young person trying to survive in a system rigged against him ... A magical-realist office drama infused with millennial anomie, and McGhee's canny, often bittersweetly hilarious prose reads as if George Saunders infiltrated the Severance writers' room' Washington Post
' Imagine the movie Inception, but populated by the middle-management workers in David Graeber's book Bullshit Jobs ' New York Times
'Fearlessly inventive and exquisitely poised ... trippy, incisive, and, most importantly, riotously funny' Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
'An original mind brimming over with invention and comic ferocity' Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet
'An excitingly original writer, inventing much needed and killingly funny satires for contemporary work and dreams of success' Holly Pester, author of The Lodgers
'Precision, humour, heart ... a stunner' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars
'[An] insightfully nightmarish parable of the pervasive ravages of debt' Halle Butler, author of The New Me
'An exuberant, poignant, freewheeling debut' Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation
'Funny, freaky, intellectually bold and always from the heart' Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask
'A revelation ... There's nothing like it, awake or asleep' Hilary Leichter, author of Temporary
'The rare novel that truly feels like it could've only been written by a single brilliant mind' Jean Kyoung Frazier author of Pizza Girl
'A marvellous chronicler of the fantastic, the perverse, and the sublime' Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dog
'Debt can take on a life of it's own, but when it's really good - like Jonathan Abernathy - so can art' Electric Lit
