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‘Extremely dark … laugh-out-loud funny’
GUARDIAN

‘The funniest book I’ve read for a long time’ DAVID NICHOLLS

‘Twistedly funny’ VINCENZO LATRONICO

‘Utterly ruthless’
NEW YORK TIMES

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION

Written with the accomplished authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a loser’s manifesto, Rejection radically redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society and oneself.

We see a tryhard male feminist’s passionate allyship turn to a furious nihilism as he realises that his feminism isn’t getting him laid and a young woman’s unrequited crush spirals into borderline obsession. As these characters pop up in each other’s dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways that our delusions can warp our desire for connection.

A Book of the Year in Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New Yorker, NPR, Time Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Electric Literature and more.

‘Blistering … takes a magnifying glass to the mind of the internet age’
VOGUE

‘An excruciating examination of modern losers in psychic distress’
THE TIMES

‘Tulathimutte is a pervert and a madman and a stone-cold genius’ CARMEN MARIA MACHADO, author of In the Dream House

‘Audacious and painful and addictive … I loved it’ RUFI THORPE, author of Margo’s Got Money Troubles

‘The funniest, darkest thing – it’s like Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground meets Instagram’ ST. VINCENT

‘You will be crawling out of your skin from the very first words’ JIA TOLENTINO, author of Trick Mirror

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Praise for Rejection:

‘Perversely funny and piercingly perceptive’ Financial Times

‘A hilarious, disgusting work of genius’ Interview

‘At once entertaining and acute … the stories capture 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

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

‘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

‘Gutting … Cleverly satirizes a heartless world’ TIME

‘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

‘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