Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

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Trippy, incisive, riotously funny ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN

[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ' HALLE BUTLER

'A stunner NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH

Luminous as if George Saunders infiltrated the Severance writers room WASHINGTON POST
A work place novel. A love story. A dream you cant wake from

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 entering the dreams of white-collar workers to audit them flagging their anxieties for removal at night so they'll be more productive in the day.

But as the lines between life and work, right and wrong, and even sleep and consciousness blur, Abernathy begins to wonder just how much 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.

Surrealist A scathing critique of capitalism TIME

'Imagine the movie Inception, but populated by the middle-management workers in David Graebers book Bullshit Jobs' NEW YORK TIMES

'An excitingly original writer, inventing much needed and killingly funny satires for contemporary work and dreams of success' HOLLY PESTER

A revelation HILARY LEICHTER

An original mind brimming over with invention BEN MARCUS

An exuberant, poignant, freewheeling debut very funny JEFF VANDERMEER

The spiritual sibling of Severance, but creepier LITERARY HUB

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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 McGhees 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 Graebers 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 its own, but when its really good like Jonathan Abernathy so can art Electric Lit

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.