Rejection

Praise for Rejection :

‘ Perversely funny and piercingly perceptive ’ Financial Times

‘ A hilarious, disgusting work of genius ’ Interview

‘At once entertaining and acute … capture[s] the spirit of our doomscrolling age ’ Guardian

‘ So sharp and shrewd and entertaining ’ David Nicholls, author of You Are Here

‘ Perverse, profane and profound … will make your skin crawl’ Esquire

‘ Divinely appalling … It is quite difficult to laugh so hard while also being goldfish-mouthed at its audacity’ Scotsman

‘ Audacious, original and highly disturbing … an incandescent satire’ New York Times Magazine

‘Explores modern loneliness and atomisation with startling lucidity ’ Service95

‘A pitiless examination of hypocrisies and self-deceptions’ Dazed

‘ Obsessively readable , acerbic, Foster Wallace-inflected’ Vanity Fair

‘I have never laughed as hard reading a work of fiction, maybe ever … brain-meltingly good ’ Wired

‘Tulathimutte prises open and peers into the ugliest parts of the modern psyche … viscerally uncomfortable ’ TLS

‘Gasp-inducing … one of the boldest works in recent memory ’ Karan Mahajan, Granta

‘Gutting … Cleverly satirizes a heartless world ’ TIME

‘ One of the funniest books I’ve read in years and a smart take on how the internet breaks our brains’ NPR

‘Tulathimutte, undoubtedly one of the foremost fiction writers of his generation, is virtuosic, in the realm of the greats ’ Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror

‘ Unrelentingly brutal and gut-bustingly funny and spares no one’ Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House

‘ Fast and funny , a delirious convergence of the haptic and uncanny’ Raven Leilani, author of Luster

‘ A book of mad, madcap genius ’ Garth Greenwell, author of Small Rain

‘A book that transforms over successful readings … so twistedly funny, so precise ’ Vincenzo Latronico, author of Perfection

‘ The funniest book I’ve ever read ’ Bowen Yang

Praise for Rejection :

‘ Perversely funny and piercingly perceptive ’ Financial Times

‘ A hilarious, disgusting work of genius ’ Interview

‘At once entertaining and acute … capture[s] the spirit of our doomscrolling age ’ Guardian

‘ So sharp and shrewd and entertaining ’ David Nicholls, author of You Are Here

‘ Perverse, profane and profound … will make your skin crawl’ Esquire

‘ Divinely appalling … It is quite difficult to laugh so hard while also being goldfish-mouthed at its audacity’ Scotsman

‘ Audacious, original and highly disturbing … an incandescent satire’ New York Times Magazine

‘Explores modern loneliness and atomisation with startling lucidity ’ Service95

‘A pitiless examination of hypocrisies and self-deceptions’ Dazed

‘ Obsessively readable , acerbic, Foster Wallace-inflected’ Vanity Fair

‘I have never laughed as hard reading a work of fiction, maybe ever … brain-meltingly good ’ Wired

‘Tulathimutte prises open and peers into the ugliest parts of the modern psyche … viscerally uncomfortable ’ TLS

‘Gasp-inducing … one of the boldest works in recent memory ’ Karan Mahajan, Granta

‘Gutting … Cleverly satirizes a heartless world ’ TIME

‘ One of the funniest books I’ve read in years and a smart take on how the internet breaks our brains’ NPR

‘Tulathimutte, undoubtedly one of the foremost fiction writers of his generation, is virtuosic, in the realm of the greats ’ Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror

‘ Unrelentingly brutal and gut-bustingly funny and spares no one’ Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House

‘ Fast and funny , a delirious convergence of the haptic and uncanny’ Raven Leilani, author of Luster

‘ A book of mad, madcap genius ’ Garth Greenwell, author of Small Rain

‘A book that transforms over successful readings … so twistedly funny, so precise ’ Vincenzo Latronico, author of Perfection

‘ The funniest book I’ve ever read ’ Bowen Yang

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.