Rejection
Published on 23. April 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-00-875938-4 (ISBN)
Description
'The funniest book I've read for a long time' DAVID NICHOLLS
'Utterly ruthless'
NEW YORK TIMES
'Addictive ... I loved it!' RUFI THORPE
'Twistedly funny' VINCENZO LATRONICO
'Razor-sharp ... impossible to put down' JACK EDWARDS
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 Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, TIME, Vanity Fair, GQ, Service95 and more.
A Jack Edwards Inklings Book Club Pick
'Extremely dark ... laugh-out-loud funny'
GUARDIAN
'Divinely appalling'
SCOTSMAN
'Perversely funny'
FINANCIAL TIMES
'The funniest, darkest thing'
ST. VINCENT
'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
'You will be crawling out of your skin' JIA TOLENTINO, author of Trick Mirror
'Mad, madcap genius' GARTH GREENWELL, author of Small Rain
'Utterly ruthless'
NEW YORK TIMES
'Addictive ... I loved it!' RUFI THORPE
'Twistedly funny' VINCENZO LATRONICO
'Razor-sharp ... impossible to put down' JACK EDWARDS
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 Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, TIME, Vanity Fair, GQ, Service95 and more.
A Jack Edwards Inklings Book Club Pick
'Extremely dark ... laugh-out-loud funny'
GUARDIAN
'Divinely appalling'
SCOTSMAN
'Perversely funny'
FINANCIAL TIMES
'The funniest, darkest thing'
ST. VINCENT
'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
'You will be crawling out of your skin' JIA TOLENTINO, author of Trick Mirror
'Mad, madcap genius' GARTH GREENWELL, author of Small Rain
Reviews / Votes
Praise for Rejection:'Perversely funny and piercingly perceptive' Financial Times
'A hilarious, disgusting work of genius' Interview
'At once entertaining and acute ... capture[s] 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
'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
'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
'Gutting ... Cleverly satirizes a heartless world' TIME
'One of the funniest books I've read in years and a smart take on how the internet breaks our brains' NPR
'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
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 124 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
192 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-875938-4 (9780008759384)
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Tony Tulathimutte is the author of Private Citizens and Rejection. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, n +1, The Nation, The New Republic, and The New York Times. The recipient of an O. Henry Award and a Whiting Award, he runs the writing class CRIT in Brooklyn.