A Glamour Best Book of 2020 . A BustleBest Books of 2020 . Winner of an Audiofile Earphones Award . An Entertainment Weekly 30 Hottest Book ofthe Summer . A Refinery29 25Book You'll Want To Read This Summer Selection . A Chicago Review of Books 10 Must-Read Books of theMonth . A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year . A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of theYear . A Shondaland 15 Hot Books for SummerOne of today's most provocative literary writers-the author ofthe critically-acclaimed Sunshine State and the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Awardfinalist BinaryStar-capturesthe confused state of modern romance and the egos that inflate it ina dark comedy about a woman's search for acceptance, identity, andfinancial security in the rise of Trump.
Nina is a struggling writer, a college drop-out, a liar, and acheater. More than anything she wants love. She deserves it. From the burned-out suburbs of Florida to the anonymous squalorof New York City, she eats through an incestuous cast of characters in searchof 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 whoselatest show is comprised of three Tupperware containers full of trash; Brian, whoseroller-coaster affair with Nina is the most stable "relationship" in his life; andAaron, an aspiring filmmaker living at home with his parents, with whom Ninabegins to write her magnum opus.
Nina's quest for fulfillment is at oncedarkly comedic, acerbically acute, and painfully human-a scathing critique ofcontemporary society, and a tender examination of our anguished yearning forconnection in an era defined by detachment.
A Glamour Best Book of 2020 . A BustleBest Books of 2020 . Winner of an Audiofile Earphones Award . An Entertainment Weekly 30 Hottest Book ofthe Summer . A Refinery29 25Book You'll Want To Read This Summer Selection . A Chicago Review of Books 10 Must-Read Books of theMonth . A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year . A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of theYear . A Shondaland 15 Hot Books for SummerOne of today's most provocative literary writers-the author ofthe critically-acclaimed Sunshine State and the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Awardfinalist BinaryStar-capturesthe confused state of modern romance and the egos that inflate it ina dark comedy about a woman's search for acceptance, identity, andfinancial security in the rise of Trump.
Nina is a struggling writer, a college drop-out, a liar, and acheater. More than anything she wants love. She deserves it. From the burned-out suburbs of Florida to the anonymous squalorof New York City, she eats through an incestuous cast of characters in searchof 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 whoselatest show is comprised of three Tupperware containers full of trash; Brian, whoseroller-coaster affair with Nina is the most stable "relationship" in his life; andAaron, an aspiring filmmaker living at home with his parents, with whom Ninabegins to write her magnum opus.
Nina's quest for fulfillment is at oncedarkly comedic, acerbically acute, and painfully human-a scathing critique ofcontemporary society, and a tender examination of our anguished yearning forconnection in an era defined by detachment.