Rejection

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A thrill for the sickos among us JIA TOLENTINO

Utterly inimitable RAVEN LEILANI

Tulathimutte is a pervert, a madman and a stone-cold genius Carmen Maria Machado

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION

An audacious, original and unforgettable 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 thorniest problems of modern life: sex, relationships, identity and the internet.

We see a young mans passionate allyship turn to a furious and debilitating nihilism as he realizes, over thirty lonely years, that his feminism isnt getting him laid; a young womans unrequited crush spirals into borderline obsession and the systematic destruction of both her sense of self and her group chat; and witness a shy late bloomers flailing efforts at a first relationship lead to a life-upending mistake. As these characters pop up in each others dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways that our delusions can warp our desire for connection.

Written with the accomplished authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a losers manifesto, Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte radically redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society and oneself.

A book of mad, madcap genius Garth Greenwell

He writes about these things in the way Anthony Bourdain wrote about restaurants Tulathimutte is a big talent The New York Times Book Review

Blistering takes a magnifying glass to the mind in the internet age Vogue

Theres a volatile thrill to the writing snortingly funny Wall Street Journal

Obsessively readable, acerbic, Foster Wallaceinflected Vanity Fair

A master comedian with a virtuoso prose style audacious, original and highly disturbing New York Times Magazine

A Book of the Year in Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New Yorker, NPR, Time Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Kirkus Review and Electric Literature.

Reviews

Divinely appalling, almost sublimely ghastly It is quite difficult to laugh so hard while also being goldfish-mouthed at its audacity The Scotsman

'Startlingly good The psychic torment of these characters can be as disturbing as graphic horror stories; it can also be snortingly funny' Wall Street Journal

'Gutting Cleverly satirizes a heartless world' TIME,100 Must-Read Books of the Year

'I was entranced by his book despite its narrowness and emotional barbarity Tulathimutte is a big talent' Dwight Garner, New York Times Book Review

'Perverse, profane, and profound will make your skin crawl' Esquire, Best Books of the Year

'I found myself perversely heartened by his depraved genius what I needed to read this year: bleak, funny and utterly ruthless' Jennifer Szalai, New York Times Book Review

'One of the funniest books Ive read in years' NPR

'With the prose-dial turned up to gasp-inducing Nabokov and Amis levels one of the boldest works in recent memory' Karan Mahajan, Granta mag

Unrelentingly brutal and gut-bustingly funny and spares no one Tulathimutte is a pervert and a madman and a stone-cold genius Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House

Tulathimutte is utterly inimitable. Rejection is fast and funny, a delirious convergence of the haptic and uncanny Raven Leilani, author of Luster

Tulathimuttes supercharged prose and profound existential comedy reveal something true at the heart of our desperate human condition. A book of mad, madcap genius Garth Greenwell, author of Small Rain

You will be crawling out of your skin from the very first words virtuosic Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror

Absurdity and vulgarity merge with the fearless excavation of the deadly serious symbiotically serious and funny' Megan Nolan, in Vogue

'The funniest, darkest thinglike Dostoevskys Notes from Underground meets Instagram' St Vincent

Most insane, funniest book Ive ever read Bowen Yang

A hilarious, disgusting work of genius Interview magazine

Author Bio

Tony Tulathimutte is the author of Private Citizens and Rejection. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, n +1, The Nation, The New Republic, and The New York Times. The recipient of an O. Henry Award and a Whiting Award, he runs the writing class CRIT in Brooklyn.