Praise for Rejection

“A master comedian with a virtuoso prose style has produced an audacious, original and highly disturbing book . . . an incandescent satire” — New York Times Magazine

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“Tulathimutte is unafraid to write the most disturbing, disgusting, and delightfully deranged things [...] a hilariously brazen and existentially unsettling portrait of modern life, love, and identity” — Kirkus

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“...a wildly entertaining, occasionally outlandish, and formally inventive satire” — Dirt

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“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.”

— Roxane Gay, via Goodreads

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“If Tony Tulathimutte’s debut novel, Private Citizens, was, as New York Magazine called it, “the first great millennial novel,” Rejection might well be the last — by virtue of having, by the last page, ruthlessly demolished all received notions of what it might mean for a novel to be great, or to be millennial, or, for that matter, to be a novel at all. I could compare Rejection to the work of Nabokov, in its stylish and blazingly original skewering of convention; or to that of Roth, in the daring with which it plumbs the darkest depths of the human psyche to excavate what is most vulnerable about us...”

— Vauhini Vara, author of The Immortal King Rao