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Rejection: Fiction
From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel,” New York Magazine), an electrifying 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 touchiest problems of modern life. The seven connected stories seamlessly transition between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity, and the internet.
In “The Feminist,” a young man’s passionate allyship turns to furious nihilism as he realizes, over thirty lonely years, that it isn’t getting him laid. A young woman’s unrequited crush in “Pics” spirals into borderline obsession and the systematic destruction of her sense of self. And in “Ahegao; or, The Ballad of Sexual Repression,” a shy late bloomer’s flailing efforts at a first relationship leads to a life-upending mistake. As the characters pop up in each other’s dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways our delusions can warp our desire for connection.
These brilliant satires explore the underrated sorrows of rejection with the authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a manifesto. Audacious and unforgettable, Rejection is a stunning mosaic that redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society, and oneself.
Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the touchiest problems of modern life. The seven connected stories seamlessly transition between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity, and the internet.
In “The Feminist,” a young man’s passionate allyship turns to furious nihilism as he realizes, over thirty lonely years, that it isn’t getting him laid. A young woman’s unrequited crush in “Pics” spirals into borderline obsession and the systematic destruction of her sense of self. And in “Ahegao; or, The Ballad of Sexual Repression,” a shy late bloomer’s flailing efforts at a first relationship leads to a life-upending mistake. As the characters pop up in each other’s dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways our delusions can warp our desire for connection.
These brilliant satires explore the underrated sorrows of rejection with the authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a manifesto. Audacious and unforgettable, Rejection is a stunning mosaic that redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society, and oneself.
272 pages, Kindle Edition
Expected publication September 17, 2024
About the author
Tony Tulathimutte
6 books209 followers Tony Tulathimutte’s debut novel Private Citizens was called “the first great millennial novel” by New York Magazine. A graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has written for The Paris Review, N+1, The New York Times, VICE, WIRED, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Playboy, and others. He has received an O. Henry Award and a MacDowell Fellowship, and teaches the writing class CRIT in Brooklyn.
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August 15, 2024
Before I even finished this novel I was sending it to my friends telling them to read it
Thank god the ending was as good as it was
Thank god the ending was as good as it was
July 28, 2024
An absolutely brutal and brilliant collection. Rejection is short: there are seven stories, of which the first five are substantial character studies, and the last two a coda to those (the stories are all linked). The character studies, in the main, follow unhappy and self-sabotaging people: in ‘The Feminist’, a man who’s furious his status as a self-proclaimed feminist doesn’t get him dates; in ‘Pics’, a woman whose obsession with a crush destroys her life; in ‘Ahegao’, a gay guy who struggles not with his sexuality but with the fact that he can only get off on a particular, hard-to-articulate fetish. The broader themes here – dating, the internet, the soul-crushing combination of the two, repression, and, obviously, rejection – are explored in a lot of contemporary fiction, but it’s Tulathimutte’s writing that really makes it work: raw, shorn of any restraint, horribly true. The obvious point of comparison is Kristen Roupenian’s
You Know You Want This
– in particular, ‘The Feminist’ followed by ‘Pics’ reminded me of the one-two punch of ‘Cat Person’ and ‘The Good Guy’ – and I also thought a lot about Paul Dalla Rosa’s use of voice in An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life.
I received an advance review copy of Rejection from the publisher through Edelweiss.
I received an advance review copy of Rejection from the publisher through Edelweiss.
July 30, 2024
This book is very good and I did not enjoy it at all. May sound like a contradiction, but this is a book that wants to get you real deep into the worst of what we have to offer in the world of being extremely online, being a troll irl, being a truly terrible person who knows therapy words. The stories are so good, so precise, it's like watching a surgery video. Gut wrenching and precise.
It's not going to work for a lot of people because it really wants you to be uncomfortable. It is not going to present a single likable character for you to latch on to. But I did like how the connections of the stories gave you a few different angles on things. Not beating you over the head with it, just the slightest little nod.
It's not going to work for a lot of people because it really wants you to be uncomfortable. It is not going to present a single likable character for you to latch on to. But I did like how the connections of the stories gave you a few different angles on things. Not beating you over the head with it, just the slightest little nod.
May 9, 2024
When Tony revealed the cover for his book I commented on his IG post about how I liked the prominent placement of the word “fiction” on the cover. Funny enough, during the experience of reading the book, I turned frequently back to that little word, placed so centrally on the cover, clinging to it like a life raft. It’s all made up right?
Rejection is a collection of stories that are essentially deep psychological dives / character studies of people we might deem to be overreacting to some experience of rejection. Theres a weird feminist straight dude, a lady, a gay dude, a tech bro, a person that rejects all identity labels, a prose-poem on the metaphor of catching fish, and then a meta-commentary on the book and rejection. What arises is that maybe maybe they are only slightly more exaggerated than what actual rejection feels like.
Take Ahegao. No spoilers but the huge monologue in the story is extended even further from the PR version, and its more fun because of it. It involves a gay character who struggles with coming out a second time as a kind of anime-Dom, the idiosyncrasy of his sexuality insufficiently housed in a term like “gay.” His sexuality bristles as it has to transfer from the place of fantasy to reality, and the result is a kind of anticipation of rejection that litters his life with lost boyfriends. I couldn’t stop reading the insane sexual fantasy monologue and I even read a bit aloud. You’ll know what part I’m talking about when you read it. (Ekin asked me from bed: “does reading that make you feel good?” I laughed but I’m still not sure.) Ahegao made me feel stimulated but hollow the way Nathan Fielder does sometimes, even though I don’t think Tony’s a nihilist in the same way. He’s more of a humanist really.
The stories are connected in a lithe and delicate way—people are lovers, siblings, and strangers. What the connections show you is that the people in the book think they’re a lot worse off than they appear, and that people have really distorted impressions of how they come off to people.
Because I took Tony’s class I understood the book as an exemplification of some of the best ideas of what it means to write well: write about those things that you think “handicap” you as a writer. They will l turn into your strengths. Write about things that you think are not fit for writing and things that allow you to channel your vernaculars. The book is something like a treatise on the status of fiction today, written in fiction. It encouraged me to write fiction that is smarter and more troubling, that intervenes in the current academic discourse on identity and media but is also a form of expression. In the book we are made privy to many of the characters deepest, darkest, most sexual, violent, and disturbing fantasies, and the the conditions that lead to the birthing of those fantasies is often the plot itself of each story. Its all made up, its all made up, i kept saying.
Is it? That seems to be part of the thrill, that Tony addresses in the latter chapters, where the fiction is less autofiction and more like metafiction; reflections that read like meditations on the roles of “reader” “author” “character” and “text.” “Main Charcter” is in particular an intense and troubling provocation of the themes of identity and character in the wake of social media and the internet. Its kindof the lore of a post that existed on reddit somewhere. I envisioned it in “the wild” somewhere, online, on an actual post, existing as it should. It’s about the rejection of identity, from a particularly Asian American perspective. The screed on Twitter made me happy that I am not so Twitter dependent but it did make me reflect on my other digital dependencies. Throughout the book, the Internet and social media serves only to exacerbate and exaggerate many of the distorted emotions that emerge out of various rejections: whether its the rejection of identity, romantic rejection, rejection of fantasy; rejecting the reader. (The last story is basically made for you to dislike, so you walk away with a sour taste.)
Tony has something to say about fiction the concept itself, and he has to implicate himself to say it. I mean, it’s ALL made up, but that doesn’t seem sufficient to describe the space that fiction occupies in our daily lives. He presents a kind of connection between fiction and the more mundane daily act of envisioning the kind of world we want to live in. When people don’t do what they want you to do, you invent what you want them to do. Then you live your life. The rest is fiction.
Rejection is a collection of stories that are essentially deep psychological dives / character studies of people we might deem to be overreacting to some experience of rejection. Theres a weird feminist straight dude, a lady, a gay dude, a tech bro, a person that rejects all identity labels, a prose-poem on the metaphor of catching fish, and then a meta-commentary on the book and rejection. What arises is that maybe maybe they are only slightly more exaggerated than what actual rejection feels like.
Take Ahegao. No spoilers but the huge monologue in the story is extended even further from the PR version, and its more fun because of it. It involves a gay character who struggles with coming out a second time as a kind of anime-Dom, the idiosyncrasy of his sexuality insufficiently housed in a term like “gay.” His sexuality bristles as it has to transfer from the place of fantasy to reality, and the result is a kind of anticipation of rejection that litters his life with lost boyfriends. I couldn’t stop reading the insane sexual fantasy monologue and I even read a bit aloud. You’ll know what part I’m talking about when you read it. (Ekin asked me from bed: “does reading that make you feel good?” I laughed but I’m still not sure.) Ahegao made me feel stimulated but hollow the way Nathan Fielder does sometimes, even though I don’t think Tony’s a nihilist in the same way. He’s more of a humanist really.
The stories are connected in a lithe and delicate way—people are lovers, siblings, and strangers. What the connections show you is that the people in the book think they’re a lot worse off than they appear, and that people have really distorted impressions of how they come off to people.
Because I took Tony’s class I understood the book as an exemplification of some of the best ideas of what it means to write well: write about those things that you think “handicap” you as a writer. They will l turn into your strengths. Write about things that you think are not fit for writing and things that allow you to channel your vernaculars. The book is something like a treatise on the status of fiction today, written in fiction. It encouraged me to write fiction that is smarter and more troubling, that intervenes in the current academic discourse on identity and media but is also a form of expression. In the book we are made privy to many of the characters deepest, darkest, most sexual, violent, and disturbing fantasies, and the the conditions that lead to the birthing of those fantasies is often the plot itself of each story. Its all made up, its all made up, i kept saying.
Is it? That seems to be part of the thrill, that Tony addresses in the latter chapters, where the fiction is less autofiction and more like metafiction; reflections that read like meditations on the roles of “reader” “author” “character” and “text.” “Main Charcter” is in particular an intense and troubling provocation of the themes of identity and character in the wake of social media and the internet. Its kindof the lore of a post that existed on reddit somewhere. I envisioned it in “the wild” somewhere, online, on an actual post, existing as it should. It’s about the rejection of identity, from a particularly Asian American perspective. The screed on Twitter made me happy that I am not so Twitter dependent but it did make me reflect on my other digital dependencies. Throughout the book, the Internet and social media serves only to exacerbate and exaggerate many of the distorted emotions that emerge out of various rejections: whether its the rejection of identity, romantic rejection, rejection of fantasy; rejecting the reader. (The last story is basically made for you to dislike, so you walk away with a sour taste.)
Tony has something to say about fiction the concept itself, and he has to implicate himself to say it. I mean, it’s ALL made up, but that doesn’t seem sufficient to describe the space that fiction occupies in our daily lives. He presents a kind of connection between fiction and the more mundane daily act of envisioning the kind of world we want to live in. When people don’t do what they want you to do, you invent what you want them to do. Then you live your life. The rest is fiction.
August 23, 2024
4.5/5 ARC gifted by the publisher
This is exactly the type of weird stuff I love to read. A very on-the-nose satire that explores “rejection” through different perspectives—a self-proclaimed feminist who’s a cis straight white dude, a Thai American who came out as gay, a startup bro trying to manifest his multimillion dollar future, etc.
I especially love the ending—not to give too much away but it ties in the themes of rejection across all the stories.
For lovers of satire this will be very fun! But I think most readers might not like it lol. It’s a book that will make you question humanity, makes you ask “what’s the point”, make you uncomfortable. And it’s brilliant if you’re willing to go to the dark side. If AFTERPARTIES is chaotic good, REJECTION is chaotic evil.
Also check TW because one story (Ahegao) is veeeeeeery obscene 🙈 I skimmed a lot of it
This is exactly the type of weird stuff I love to read. A very on-the-nose satire that explores “rejection” through different perspectives—a self-proclaimed feminist who’s a cis straight white dude, a Thai American who came out as gay, a startup bro trying to manifest his multimillion dollar future, etc.
I especially love the ending—not to give too much away but it ties in the themes of rejection across all the stories.
For lovers of satire this will be very fun! But I think most readers might not like it lol. It’s a book that will make you question humanity, makes you ask “what’s the point”, make you uncomfortable. And it’s brilliant if you’re willing to go to the dark side. If AFTERPARTIES is chaotic good, REJECTION is chaotic evil.
Also check TW because one story (Ahegao) is veeeeeeery obscene 🙈 I skimmed a lot of it
September 1, 2024
‘Rejection’ got me thinking about feelings of rejection and their role in my own life. Which, I consider a compliment to the humanity the author put in this book. (Although, if I ever act like anyone written about here, take me out back and put me down like yeller.)
Absurd and clever, with a great finale.
Absurd and clever, with a great finale.
September 6, 2024
This was hard to read, because of how raw and realistic is was. I was cringing and wanting to skip through at some points. The central themes of shame, rejection, dating, repression, online culture, all made the stories hard to get through. I enjoyed 'The Feminist' and 'Pics' the most, as I feel like I know many people like the main characters in those stories. I really loved how the stories were all connected, and I could see characters from different perspectives but it was all very subtle. While not a requirement, it helps to be very online or aware of deep online culture. This was a very spot-on satirical story collection.
Thank you to William Morrow and NetGalley for the ARC.
Thank you to William Morrow and NetGalley for the ARC.
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June 18, 2024I'm not online enough to fully understand what this book is doing, but I found it compelling/read the whole thing really fast. I loved how each story is subtly linked to the others.
May 27, 2024
Rejection just might be too smart for its own good. This uncanny collection of short stories delves into the lives of those struggling with rejection and finds them coping in very different and alarmingly millennial ways. Tulathimutte's writing is so sharp and so funny. Basically, it's enjoyable until it hits a little too close to home and makes the reader squirm. This is definitely one for those who are a bit too online.
Overall, this worked so well as a short story collection and I loved how different characters were interwoven through each installment. The ending was such a delight. I truly look forward to discussing this with others and equally anticipate and fear what Tulathimutte writes next.
Many thanks to William Morrow and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review.
Overall, this worked so well as a short story collection and I loved how different characters were interwoven through each installment. The ending was such a delight. I truly look forward to discussing this with others and equally anticipate and fear what Tulathimutte writes next.
Many thanks to William Morrow and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review.
September 2, 2024
my god
August 5, 2024
Genius, pervy, troll-y, uncomfy, extremely extremely online. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder while reading, or felt more called out.
May 7, 2024
This book is truly singular. It had me gasping, squirming, and clutching my pearls. I inhaled it, and am very curious to see what its reception will be at publication, and whether the satirical and meta elements will land (I am rooting for them to do so!)
May 8, 2024
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April 23, 2024thanks tony and publisher for sending the galley. tour de force...
August 4, 2024
I was conflicted about giving this book a star rating at all. The book aims to make you feel uncomfortable and distorted and it succeeds at that. It’s like reading a pre 2020 twitter timeline made up exclusively of chronically online people, an experience i personally never wanted to repeat. So, the book succeeds at that goal yet I still don’t know what larger message it was trying to convey or if there was a message at all. Its self-awareness also just came across as pretentious and tedious, so I can’t say I’d really recommend this to anyone unless they really really wanted to read the thoughts of insufferably Online people.
July 31, 2024
****3.5 Stars****
Like any collection of short stories there were amazing, hit the ball out of the park stories, a couple that I slogged through and one that I didn't finish at all. Even the story that I didn't finish was beautifully written (mainly I just had a hard time connecting to the main character of that story). I have to say my favorite story took me by surprise, it was written completely in finance bro speak and I laughed out loud from start to finish, even if the main character was a complete idiot. Would love to see if the last short story was, in fact, rejections of said book :) I have a feeling they were, which makes it that much more enjoyable.
Thanks to Harper Collins for the ARC!
Like any collection of short stories there were amazing, hit the ball out of the park stories, a couple that I slogged through and one that I didn't finish at all. Even the story that I didn't finish was beautifully written (mainly I just had a hard time connecting to the main character of that story). I have to say my favorite story took me by surprise, it was written completely in finance bro speak and I laughed out loud from start to finish, even if the main character was a complete idiot. Would love to see if the last short story was, in fact, rejections of said book :) I have a feeling they were, which makes it that much more enjoyable.
Thanks to Harper Collins for the ARC!
August 7, 2024
I received an ARC of this book and read it in two sittings. It's nothing like anything I've seen before; a true post-internet collection of interlinked short stories. It's very Deleuzian, which is funny because one of the characters is named Kant, which is not very Deleuzian, which in turn makes it meta-Deleuzian. I'll have a full review soon.
August 19, 2024
Rejection is a propulsive parade of millennial cringe, a series of interconnected tragicomedies you’ll read, at least partially, through your fingers as you chant “no, no, no, no, no” under your breath. Smart as hell and completely disinterested in taking prisoners.
September 8, 2024
Fabulous! This book cured my constipation.
It’s not what you think. Despite the fact that I literally was constipated, due to several surgeries and a daily medication regime of Percocet and gummy laxatives when I started this book. What I am more accurately referring to is my reading constipation, which was alleviated by my absorption of Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte.
For me, a reading constipation is when my TBR list keeps growing, along with the stacks of books in my house(new & used), the books in various tote bags that I carry with me during my travels and then when all my holds on Libby become downloadable for my Kindle… it’s too much too soon. For me this makes it difficult to focus on the entire idea of reading and I get a feeling of being backed-up, or reading constipation. Do you ever get that? Maybe you call it something else. Rejection was a much needed cure to get my reading flow going.
Tulathimutte is fucking brutal and funny as he connects seven stories of rejection that skewers the so-called complications of modern life with no absolution for his subjects. His characters are the product of always being online, their existences shaped by a solitary confinement of their own making. Their judgements and rejections living solely in their own perspectives of the situation they created. In the opener, “The Feminist”, you read the unenviable story of a person who’s sexual decline comes at his own hands, yet his final and inevitable act is a gut punch we all see coming. In “Pics” it is the group chat that had me hollering! The group chat blowing up as it usually does, but Tulathimutte’s perversions takes it to the next level.
The other stories follow the same patterns and finding how the characters relate to one another is like a fun Easter Egg hunt that Tulathimutte has seamlessly created. Yet, at times I did falter with fatigue of having to go through the olympic style grind of self-destruction of these unlikable characters. Reading breaks were definitely necessary to finish. But that is a minor objection to an overall intoxicating and wickedly fun book that serves up brilliant satire that is firmly cemented in the modern age.
Most readers came upon Tulathimutte’s story, “The Feminist” as a first read in N+1 magazine. I found his book through a friend’s and fellow substak-er, The Mojave Tumbleweed Association’s, review of it here. Her “not not a book review” made me jump on the chance to get an advanced readers copy. Big thanks to Netgalley and Harper Collins Willam Morrow Books. PreOrder your copy of Rejection here.
It’s not what you think. Despite the fact that I literally was constipated, due to several surgeries and a daily medication regime of Percocet and gummy laxatives when I started this book. What I am more accurately referring to is my reading constipation, which was alleviated by my absorption of Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte.
For me, a reading constipation is when my TBR list keeps growing, along with the stacks of books in my house(new & used), the books in various tote bags that I carry with me during my travels and then when all my holds on Libby become downloadable for my Kindle… it’s too much too soon. For me this makes it difficult to focus on the entire idea of reading and I get a feeling of being backed-up, or reading constipation. Do you ever get that? Maybe you call it something else. Rejection was a much needed cure to get my reading flow going.
Tulathimutte is fucking brutal and funny as he connects seven stories of rejection that skewers the so-called complications of modern life with no absolution for his subjects. His characters are the product of always being online, their existences shaped by a solitary confinement of their own making. Their judgements and rejections living solely in their own perspectives of the situation they created. In the opener, “The Feminist”, you read the unenviable story of a person who’s sexual decline comes at his own hands, yet his final and inevitable act is a gut punch we all see coming. In “Pics” it is the group chat that had me hollering! The group chat blowing up as it usually does, but Tulathimutte’s perversions takes it to the next level.
The other stories follow the same patterns and finding how the characters relate to one another is like a fun Easter Egg hunt that Tulathimutte has seamlessly created. Yet, at times I did falter with fatigue of having to go through the olympic style grind of self-destruction of these unlikable characters. Reading breaks were definitely necessary to finish. But that is a minor objection to an overall intoxicating and wickedly fun book that serves up brilliant satire that is firmly cemented in the modern age.
Most readers came upon Tulathimutte’s story, “The Feminist” as a first read in N+1 magazine. I found his book through a friend’s and fellow substak-er, The Mojave Tumbleweed Association’s, review of it here. Her “not not a book review” made me jump on the chance to get an advanced readers copy. Big thanks to Netgalley and Harper Collins Willam Morrow Books. PreOrder your copy of Rejection here.
July 3, 2024
😤😭🤯🫥😶🌫️🫠🫣🥵🥴🫨🤑😵💫reading this was like gorging myself on forbidden fruit which excavates my deepest, most repressed, most poisonous loneliness and holds it to the unforgiving light but also makes me smarter, more self-aware, unbound from blissful ignorance, and profoundly grateful to have my latent, itchy anti-identitarian instincts articulated with such adrenalized style and intellectual conviction; i could not put this down but i also frequently felt so nauseatingly plunged into the very heart of internet-age alienation/atomization where the individual life is both all we have and nothing but a sacrifice at the altar of moral authority … my heart is pounding & i can’t write about this without getting my figurative language all twisted up like unruly intestines bc i feel like i’ve just been blasted in the face with the scouring truth of being trapped in a reluctantly gendered & racialized body, working hard to overpower through rationalization others’ rejection of me by first rejecting their frameworks for desire, failing to reconcile the competing wishes to live free of and accepted by contemporary society, and finding no way out except to not kill myself and keep writing, even when the writing feels so useless as to negate my life
August 8, 2024
Ouch, this collection of short stories was absolutely brutal.
Still, enthralled by Tulathimutte’s deft balancing of the repulsive with the comedic, I kept reading (excepting that giant email in “Ahegao” and other parts that gave me too much secondhand embarrassment to continue lol).
I wonder what Tulathimutte’s last story, a rejection of his previous stories from the perspective of a publisher, was meant to achieve. Tulathimutte actively wonders this too, arguing so many reasons that it’s incredibly impressive how shrewd and biting he can be in his self-awareness. Even so, preempting any negative reader reactions by pointing them out yourself strikes me as an odd way to have the last word, even as the ultimate rejection of rejection stories.
Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC!
Still, enthralled by Tulathimutte’s deft balancing of the repulsive with the comedic, I kept reading (excepting that giant email in “Ahegao” and other parts that gave me too much secondhand embarrassment to continue lol).
I wonder what Tulathimutte’s last story, a rejection of his previous stories from the perspective of a publisher, was meant to achieve. Tulathimutte actively wonders this too, arguing so many reasons that it’s incredibly impressive how shrewd and biting he can be in his self-awareness. Even so, preempting any negative reader reactions by pointing them out yourself strikes me as an odd way to have the last word, even as the ultimate rejection of rejection stories.
Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC!
April 3, 2024
This is such a unique short story collection. Many people will have already read The Feminist in N+1, I think, and upon re-reading, I enjoyed it just as much. These stories are, on the whole, uncomfortable because they are cynical and brilliant and painfully honest. Lots of writing is described as "of the moment," but that truly applies here. These, are stories that reflect what it means to have grown up during the internet age. The characters of most of these stories are Very Online, and a lot of their thoughts and actions reflect that influence. I laughed as much as I cringed. As I read the novella, I was gasping as the narrator careened from one incredibly awkward situation to the next. The final stories are... just odd, very meta. Not sure I really got them but I enjoyed them nonetheless. I could not put this book down and I haven't stopped thinking about it all day. This one is going to be fun to talk about later this year when it's out.
August 7, 2024
3.5⭐️
This was an eclectic mix of stories, some I loved and others not so much. The writing is beautiful but at times a bit pretentious. I was impressed though in one of my fav stories when he was able to totally change styles to write from the POV of a trying too hard frat bro and he nailed it there!
This book sets out to make you uncomfortable and absolutely achieved that mission. The author uses a variety of styles and formats to present stories of rejection and the emotional reactions to it. My favs were Our Dope Future, The Feminist and the fourth wall breaking Re: Rejection at the end of the book. Literary fiction readers looking for thought provoking stories should pick this one up.
This was an eclectic mix of stories, some I loved and others not so much. The writing is beautiful but at times a bit pretentious. I was impressed though in one of my fav stories when he was able to totally change styles to write from the POV of a trying too hard frat bro and he nailed it there!
This book sets out to make you uncomfortable and absolutely achieved that mission. The author uses a variety of styles and formats to present stories of rejection and the emotional reactions to it. My favs were Our Dope Future, The Feminist and the fourth wall breaking Re: Rejection at the end of the book. Literary fiction readers looking for thought provoking stories should pick this one up.
May 24, 2024
This selection of short stories is.... Wow. It's so eye opening and takes you into the shoes and perspective of different characters that all encounter hardships and obstacles throughout life.
I rather enjoyed these short stories of rejection and the coping mechanisms each character took to overcome.
Just...wow.
I rather enjoyed these short stories of rejection and the coping mechanisms each character took to overcome.
Just...wow.
May 20, 2024
Funny, filthy, and sharp!!
I started reading this at the beach, and accidentally got super sunburnt because I couldn't stop reading... totally worth it.
Definitely a book for more of the millenial set > other gens. Loved it.
I started reading this at the beach, and accidentally got super sunburnt because I couldn't stop reading... totally worth it.
Definitely a book for more of the millenial set > other gens. Loved it.
June 4, 2024
This book was written by a mad genius. It's shocking, it's transgressive, it's a hilarious slow-motion train wreck I can't take my eyes off of, it's fucking brilliant. I muttered "Jesus Christ" under my breath a dozen times and had to remind myself to take slow, measured breaths. Good lord.
August 8, 2024
these were searingly hilarious: what if black mirror but it was happening in the already-existent present? i cringed, i laughed, i already told my friends to read.
many thanks to william morrow and netgalley for the advance reader copy. this book is set for release on 17 sept 2024.
many thanks to william morrow and netgalley for the advance reader copy. this book is set for release on 17 sept 2024.
April 26, 2024
insane
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