A
Glamour
Best Book of 2020
•
Bustle
Best Books of 2020
Winner of an
Audiofile
Earphones Award
An
Entertainment Weekly
30 Hottest Book of the Summer
Refinery29
25 Book You’ll Want To Read This Summer Selection
Chicago Review of Books
10 Must-Read Books of the Month
LitHub
Most Anticipated Book of the Year
The Millions
Shondaland
15 Hot Books for Summer
One of today’s most provocative literary writers—the author of the critically-acclaimed
Sunshine State
and the
Los Angeles Times
First Fiction Award finalist
Binary Star
—captures the confused state of modern romance and the egos that inflate it in a dark comedy about a woman's search for acceptance, identity, and financial security in the rise of Trump.
Nina is a struggling writer, a college drop-out, a liar, and a cheater. More than anything she wants love. She deserves it.
From the burned-out suburbs of Florida to the anonymous squalor of New York City, she eats through an incestuous cast of characters in search of it: her mother, a narcissistic lesbian living in a nudist polycule; Odessa, a single mom with even worse taste in men than Nina; Seth, an artist whose latest show is comprised of three Tupperware containers full of trash; Brian, whose roller-coaster affair with Nina is the most stable “relationship” in his life; and Aaron, an aspiring filmmaker living at home with his parents, with whom Nina begins to write her magnum opus.
Nina’s quest for fulfillment is at once darkly comedic, acerbically acute, and painfully human—a scathing critique of contemporary society, and a tender examination of our anguished yearning for connection in an era defined by detachment.