Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

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Trippy, incisive and riotously funny Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

A wonder Precision, humour, heart, this is a stunner Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, bestselling author of Chain-Gang All-Stars
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 and behind on his student loan repayments, the only thing Abernathy has in abundance is debt.

When a secretive government loan forgiveness programme offers him a job he can literally do in his sleep, Abernathy thinks hes found his big break. He finds himself auditing the dreams of white-collar workers, flagging their anxieties for removal at night so they'll be more productive in the day. If Abernathy can at least appear competent at this new job, might he have a chance at a new life

As Abernathy tries to find his footing in this new gig, 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 Abernathy begins to wonder just what he might have signed away

Wildly imaginative, laced with black humour and full of close-to-the-bone truths, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is the cult workplace novel thats like nothing else you've read before.

An insightfully nightmarish parable of the pervasive ravages of debt Stone-cold chilling Halle Butler, author of The New Me

An exuberant, poignant, freewheeling debut full of complication and surprise very funny Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation

Funny, freaky, intellectually bold and always from the heart Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask

'Welcome to the somnambulatory prose of Molly McGhee, where vivid nightmares and lucid tender dreams live side by side A revelation Hilary Leichter, author of Temporary

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Molly McGhee is a fearlessly inventive and exquisitely poised writer, one who knows how to aim right at the jugular trippy, incisive, and, most importantly, riotously funny Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

Heres an original mind brimming over with invention and comic ferocity and a new world sensibility that serves to remind us what good hands the future of literature is in Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet

Molly McGhees luminary imagination makes this debut a wonder. Precision, humor, heart, this is a stunner Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars

In the light of this insightfully nightmarish parable of the pervasive ravages of debt, Abernathys optimism, and the serene pace of McGhees prose, are stone cold chilling Halle Butler, author of The New Me

An exuberant, poignant, freewheeling debut full of complication and surprise very funny Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation

The fiction of Molly McGhee is funny, freaky, intellectually bold and always from the heart Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask

Welcome to the somnambulatory prose of Molly McGhee, where vivid nightmares and lucid tender dreams live side by side. Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is a revelation There's nothing like it, awake or asleep or anywhere in between Hilary Leichter, author of Temporary

Lively, vacillating between humor and heartbreak at breakneck speeds, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is 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 deeply humane novel McGhee is a marvellous chronicler of the fantastic, the perverse, and the sublime Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dog

Author Bio

Molly McGhee is from a cluster of unincorporated towns outside of Nashville, Tennessee. She completed her M.F.A. in fiction at Columbia University, where, in addition to receiving a Chair's Fellowship, she taught in the undergraduate creative writing department. She has worked in the editorial departments of McSweeney's, The Believer, NOON, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Currently living in Brooklyn, her work has appeared in The Paris Review.