Worry: A Novel

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Synopsis
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A &“dryly witty&” (The New Yorker) and &“fabulously revealing&” (The New York Times Book Review) debut that follows two sisters-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamity—a Seinfeldian novel for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney.It&’s March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold—anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed—has been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought she&’d marry when her younger sister Poppy comes to crash. Indefinitely. Poppy, a year and a half out from a suicide attempt only Jules knows about, searches for work and meaning in Brooklyn while Jules spends her days hate-scrolling the feeds of Mormon mommy bloggers and waiting for life to happen. Then the hives that&’ve plagued Poppy since childhood flare up. Jules&’s uterus turns against her. Poppy brings home a maladjusted rescue dog named Amy Klobuchar. The girls&’ mother, a newly devout Messianic Jew, starts falling for the same deep-state conspiracy theories as Jules&’s online mommies. Jules, halfheartedly struggling to scrape her way to the source of her ennui, slowly and cruelly comes to blame Poppy for her own insufficiencies as a friend, a writer, and a sister. And Amy Klobuchar might have rabies. As the year shambles on and a new decade looms near, a disastrous trip home to Florida forces Jules and Poppy—comrades, competitors, constant fixtures in each other&’s lives—to ask themselves what they want their futures to look like, and whether they&’ll spend them together or apart. &“A tragicomic portrait of urban millennial life&” (Shelf Awareness), Worry is a &“riotously funny and wryly existential&” (Harper&’s Bazaar) novel of sisterhood from a nervy new voice in contemporary fiction.
Copyright:
2024

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
304 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781668018637
Related ISBNs:
9781668018613
Publisher:
Scribner
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Alexandra Tanner
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family, Humor
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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