Rejection

NATIONAL BESTSELLER *; LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION *; A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA master comedian with a virtuoso prose style has produced an audacious, original and highly disturbing book . . . an incandescent satire. Giles Harvey, The New York Times Magazine From the Whiting and O. Henrywinning 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