Rejection

RejectionLONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "A 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

he grows to understand just how much his parents have left behind

These kits come with all the materials and instructions needed to put them: plastic

Reality is broken

and mostly he misses Micah

They may have been dangerous

and a sword—that lead him to a masquerade party in New York

Thought-provoking and impossible to put down

one thing becomes worryingly clear

the bestselling author of The City of Brass

mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness

and affecting

And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others