Reward System: 'A superb writer, by turns funny, graceful, acidly cynical, lyrical' GUARDIAN
By (Author) Jem Calder
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
5th July 2022
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Short stories
823.92
304
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 21mm
364g
'Reward System is an exhilarating and beautiful book by an extraordinarily gifted writer. Reading these stories, I found myself thinking newly anddifferently about contemporary life.' - SALLY ROONEY
Julia has landed a fresh start - at a 'pan-European' restaurant.
'Imagine that,' says her mother.
'I'm imagining.'
Nick is flirting with sobriety and nobody else. Did you know: adults his age are now more likely to live with their parents than a romantic partner
Life should have started to take shape by now - but instead we're trying on new versions of ourselves, swiping left and right, and searching for a convincing answer to that question: 'What do you do'
Reward System is a set of ultra-contemporary and electrifyingly fresh fictions, of a generation of the cusp, meshed in Zooms and lockdowns, loneliness and love.
Jem Calder was born in Cambridge, and lives and works in London. His first two completed stories were published in The Stinging Fly and Granta.