Private citizens - Tony Tulathimutte

'A brilliant novel - whip smart, hilarious and entirely engrossing' Emma Cline, author of The Girls
'Tulathimutte is a big talent' Jonathan Franzen, author of Purity
'An eloquent social novel bristling with logic' Nell Zink, Financial Times, Best Summer Books of 2016

*A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 - SELECTED BY JONATHAN FRANZEN*

From a brilliant new literary talent comes a sweeping comic portrait of privilege, ambition and friendship - dubbed 'the first great millennial novel' by New York Magazine.

Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the noughties,Private Citizensembraces the contradictions of our new century. Call it a gleefully rude comedy of manners, a Middlemarchfor Millennials. The novel's four whip-smart narrators - idealistic Cory, Internet-lurking Will, awkward Henrik, and vicious Linda - are torn between fixing the world and cannibalizing it. In boisterous prose that ricochets between humour and pain, the four estranged friendsstagger through the Bay Area's maze of tech start-ups, protestors, gentrifiers, karaoke bars, house parties and cultish self-help seminars, washing up in each other's lives once again.

A wise and searching depiction of a generation grappling with privilege and finding grace in failure, Private Citizens is as expansively intelligent as it is full of heart.