Worry

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, NPR, Vogue, the Washington Post, Electric Lit, and more!

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.