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Worry : A Novel by Alexandra Tanner (2024, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherScribner

ISBN-101668018616

ISBN-139781668018613

eBay Product ID (ePID)22061242910

Product Key Features

Book TitleWorry : a Novel

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicLiterary, Humorous / General

GenreFiction

AuthorAlexandra Tanner

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight13.7 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2023-029360

Reviews" Worry is exacting and hilarious, the startling, familiar shock of seeing your own slightly warped face reflected back to you when your iPhone dies from hours of scrolling. I haven't shut up about this book and I don't think I will for the forseeable future." -- NYLON , Most Anticipated Books of 2024 "Limning the absurdity of our internet-addled, dread-filled moment, Tanner establishes herself as a formidable novelist." -- The Millions , Most Anticipated Books of 2024 "A tragicomic portrait of urban millennial life, Worry is a timely mashup of Ottessa Moshfegh's desensitized characters and Sally Rooney's attention to complex social (de)attachment. . . . Beneath the novel's shiny armor of whip-smart, satirical everydayness, though, beats a surprisingly vulnerable heart." -- Shelf Awareness "Alexandra Tanner is an author to watch: she's both funny and serious, snarky and sweet, and gives us that rare, realistic window into recognizable life." -- Lit Hub, Most Anticipated Books of 2024 "The voice! The tone! The humor! Tanner woos with wonderful writing from the first to the last page. [ Worry ] follows two twenty-something siblings in a darkly funny existential crisis. Tanner deftly explores adult sibling friendship like I've never seen on the page. It could very well be the Great Millennial Novel." -- Debutiful, Most Anticipated Books of 2024 " Worry is the book of the year for hot Jewish girls--and everyone else. Alexandra Tanner's knockout debut novel examines the unease of modern society through the lens of Jules and Poppy Gold's fraught sisterhood." -- Hey Alma, Most Anticipated Books of 2024 "A darkly funny story of sisterhood." --PureWow, Must-Read Books of March, " Worry is exacting and hilarious, the startling, familiar shock of seeing your own slightly warped face reflected back to you when your iPhone dies from hours of scrolling. It feels both like an anthropological time capsule of turn-of-the-decade culture and a prescient crystal ball of our current, utterly droll hell. . . . But at its core, Worry is a novel about sisters and the love they share despite being given access to each other's emotional nuclear codes." -- NYLON , Most Anticipated Books of 2024 "Limning the absurdity of our internet-addled, dread-filled moment, Tanner establishes herself as a formidable novelist." -- The Millions , Most Anticipated Books of 2024 "A tragicomic portrait of urban millennial life, Worry is a timely mashup of Ottessa Moshfegh's desensitized characters and Sally Rooney's attention to complex social (de)attachment. . . . Beneath the novel's shiny armor of whip-smart, satirical everydayness, though, beats a surprisingly vulnerable heart." -- Shelf Awareness "Alexandra Tanner is an author to watch: she's both funny and serious, snarky and sweet, and gives us that rare, realistic window into recognizable life." -- Lit Hub, Most Anticipated Books of 2024 "The voice! The tone! The humor! Tanner woos with wonderful writing from the first to the last page. [ Worry ] follows two twenty-something siblings in a darkly funny existential crisis. Tanner deftly explores adult sibling friendship like I've never seen on the page. It could very well be the Great Millennial Novel." -- Debutiful, Most Anticipated Books of 2024 " Worry is the book of the year for hot Jewish girls--and everyone else. Alexandra Tanner's knockout debut novel examines the unease of modern society through the lens of Jules and Poppy Gold's fraught sisterhood." -- Hey Alma, Most Anticipated Books of 2024 "Alexandra Tanner's existential, absurd and deeply funny debut novel Worry is likely the best simulation of being online I've read in literature. . . . Hilarious, dynamic, and compulsively readable, Tanner's debut is one you're going to want to start telling friends about." -- OurCulture "A darkly funny story of sisterhood. . . . Tanner is adept at tempering the quirky and satirical with more meaningful meditations on the human condition . . . Perfect for fans of Elif Batuman and Ottessa Moshfegh, Worry encapsulates a uniquely millennial malaise and solidifies Alexandra Tanner as a writer to watch." --PureWow, " Worry is an excellent, excellent comic novel, a proper laugh-until-you-cough onslaught of horrible manners, toxic relatives, internet vomit, and hilariously maimed pets. I've spent my whole life desperately trying not to say the stuff that comes out of these characters' mouths. A book that's impossible to read without annoying your friends with constant quotations. But who needs friends when you've got this book?" -- Tony Tulathimutte, author of Private Citizens, "What a biting and brilliant novel. I couldn't put it down. Worry writes toward truth in the time of the internet, it uncovers the absolute horror of 'buying things,' and it does what novels are meant to do: hauntingly display the dark and familiar sides of human behavior. Worry is the best thing I've read in a very long time." -- Kiley Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age and Come and Get It, "Fabulously revealing. . . . In Worry , Alexandra Tanner puts a humorous spin on the fixations, disappointments, aversions, and maladjustments of adulthood. . . . . Tanner works wonders with little character development (I''d call it "character entrenchment") and hardly any plot (eventually, Jules and Poppy go to Florida for Thanksgiving), trusting humor to structure the story all the way through. The novel runs on an engine that relentlessly converts suffering, usually of the inner-turmoil variety, into comedic relief. . . . Some stories give you the unvarnished truth, some the varnished one. Worry is generous and wise enough to give both." -- Hannah Gold, New York Times Book Review "If a Big Sister Manifesto did exist, one that captured the hypocrisies of the role along with the heroism, the joy along with the pain, then Alexandra Tanner has come as close as it gets with her debut novel, Worry . . . . The relationship is tenderly, torturously portrayed . . . the dialogue is spot-on, the anxieties real and compelling, and the prose is understated but assured . . . Like [Elena] Ferrante and [Sheila] Heti before her, Tanner has constructed a layered Künstlerroman, an artist''s novel about two artists coming to maturity." -- Leah Abrams, Los Angeles Review of Books " Worry is exacting and hilarious, the startling, familiar shock of seeing your own slightly warped face reflected back to you when your iPhone dies from hours of scrolling. It feels both like an anthropological time capsule of turn-of-the-decade culture and a prescient crystal ball of our current, utterly droll hell. . . . But at its core, Worry is a novel about sisters and the love they share despite being given access to each other''s emotional nuclear codes." -- NYLON , Most Anticipated Books of 2024 "Limning the absurdity of our internet-addled, dread-filled moment, Tanner establishes herself as a formidable novelist." -- The Millions , Most Anticipated Books of 2024 "A tragicomic portrait of urban millennial life, Worry is a timely mashup of Ottessa Moshfegh''s desensitized characters and Sally Rooney''s attention to complex social (de)attachment. . . . Beneath the novel''s shiny armor of whip-smart, satirical everydayness, though, beats a surprisingly vulnerable heart." -- Shelf Awareness "Alexandra Tanner is an author to watch: she''s both funny and serious, snarky and sweet, and gives us that rare, realistic window into recognizable life." -- Lit Hub, Most Anticipated Books of 2024 "The voice! The tone! The humor! Tanner woos with wonderful writing from the first to the last page. [ Worry ] follows two twenty-something siblings in a darkly funny existential crisis. Tanner deftly explores adult sibling friendship like I''ve never seen on the page. It could very well be the Great Millennial Novel." -- Debutiful, Most Anticipated Books of 2024 " Worry is the book of the year for hot Jewish girls--and everyone else. Alexandra Tanner''s knockout debut novel examines the unease of modern society through the lens of Jules and Poppy Gold''s fraught sisterhood." -- Hey Alma, Most Anticipated Books of 2024 "Alexandra Tanner''s existential, absurd and deeply funny debut novel Worry is likely the best simulation of being online I''ve read in literature. . . . Hilarious, dynamic, and compulsively readable, Tanner''s debut is one you''re going to want to start telling friends about." -- OurCulture "A darkly funny story of sisterhood. . . . Tanner is adept at tempering the quirky and satirical with more meaningful meditations on the human condition . . . Perfect for fans of Elif Batuman and Ottessa Moshfegh, Worry encapsulates a uniquely millennial malaise and solidifies Alexandra Tanner as a writer to watch." --PureWow, "A dark millennial comedy starring testy, needy Floridian Jewish sisters who move in together in New York City and drive each other nuts. . . . The kind of book you will constantly be reading out loud to others. . . . This hilarious, unremittingly jaundiced depiction of modern young adulthood hits rare extremes of both funny and sad." -- Kirkus (starred review), " Worry is exacting and hilarious, the startling, familiar shock of seeing your own slightly warped face reflected back to you when your iPhone dies from hours of scrolling. I haven't shut up about this book and I don't think I will for the forseeable future." -- NYLON , Most Anticipated Books of 2024 "Limning the absurdity of our internet-addled, dread-filled moment, Tanner establishes herself as a formidable novelist." -- The Millions , Most Anticipated Books of 2024 "A tragicomic portrait of urban millennial life, Worry is a timely mashup of Ottessa Moshfegh's desensitized characters and Sally Rooney's attention to complex social (de)attachment. . . . Beneath the novel's shiny armor of whip-smart, satirical everydayness, though, beats a surprisingly vulnerable heart." -- Shelf Awareness "Alexandra Tanner is an author to watch: she's both funny and serious, snarky and sweet, and gives us that rare, realistic window into recognizable life." -- Lit Hub, Most Anticipated Books of 2024 "The voice! The tone! The humor! Tanner woos with wonderful writing from the first to the last page. [ Worry ] follows two twenty-something siblings in a darkly funny existential crisis. Tanner deftly explores adult sibling friendship like I've never seen on the page. It could very well be the Great Millennial Novel." -- Debutiful, Most Anticipated Books of 2024 " Worry is the book of the year for hot Jewish girls--and everyone else. Alexandra Tanner's knockout debut novel examines the unease of modern society through the lens of Jules and Poppy Gold's fraught sisterhood." -- Hey Alma, Most Anticipated Books of 2024, " Worry is exacting and hilarious, the startling, familiar shock of seeing your own slightly warped face reflected back to you when your iPhone dies from hours of scrolling. I haven't shut up about this book and I don't think I will for the forseeable future." -- NYLON , Most Anticipated Books of 2024 "Limning the absurdity of our internet-addled, dread-filled moment, Tanner establishes herself as a formidable novelist." -- The Millions , Most Anticipated Books of 2024 "A tragicomic portrait of urban millennial life, Worry is a timely mashup of Ottessa Moshfegh's desensitized characters and Sally Rooney's attention to complex social (de)attachment. . . . Beneath the novel's shiny armor of whip-smart, satirical everydayness, though, beats a surprisingly vulnerable heart." -- Shelf Awareness "The voice! The tone! The humor! Tanner woos with wonderful writing from the first to the last page. [ Worry ] follows two twenty-something siblings in a darkly funny existential crisis. Tanner deftly explores adult sibling friendship like I've never seen on the page. It could very well be the Great Millennial Novel." -- Debutiful, Most Anticipated Books of 2024 " Worry is the book of the year for hot Jewish girls--and everyone else. Alexandra Tanner's knockout debut novel examines the unease of modern society through the lens of Jules and Poppy Gold's fraught sisterhood." -- Hey Alma, Most Anticipated Books of 2024, " Worry is exacting and hilarious, the startling, familiar shock of seeing your own slightly warped face reflected back to you when your iPhone dies from hours of scrolling. I haven't shut up about this book and I don't think I will for the forseeable future." -- NYLON "The voice! The tone! The humor! Tanner woos with wonderful writing from the first to the last page. [ Worry ] follows two twenty-something siblings in a darkly funny existential crisis. Tanner deftly explores adult sibling friendship like I've never seen on the page. It could very well be the Great Millennial Novel." -- Debutiful, Most Anticipated Books of 2024

SynopsisNATIONAL 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3620.A6853W67 2024