{"product_id":"private-citizens-9780062399106","title":"Private Citizens","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Scathing, upsetting and generous all at once, this novel, about millennial friends in pre-2008-crash San Francisco, thrums with Tulathimutte's sly intelligence and unerring comic timing. . . . The warm flashes make the satire cut deeper.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \"The Funniest Novels Since \u003cem\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/em\u003e\" \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"One of the really phenomenal novels I've read in the last decade.\" --Jonathan Franzen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a brilliant new literary talent comes a sweeping comic portrait of privilege, ambition, and friendship in millennial San Francisco. With the social acuity of Adelle Waldman and the murderous wit of Martin Amis, Tony Tulathimutte's \u003cem\u003ePrivate Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e is a brainy, irreverent debut--\u003cem\u003eThis Side of Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e for a new era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCapturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the aughts, \u003cem\u003ePrivate Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e embraces the contradictions of our new century: call it a loving satire. A gleefully rude comedy of manners\u003cem\u003e. Middlemarch \u003c\/em\u003efor 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 humor and pain, the four estranged friends stagger through the Bay Area's maze of tech startups, protestors, gentrifiers, karaoke bars, house parties, and cultish self-help seminars, washing up in each other's lives once again. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wise and searching depiction of a generation grappling with privilege and finding grace in failure, \u003cem\u003ePrivate Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e is as expansively intelligent as it is full of heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTulathimutte, Tony:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eTony Tulathimutte has written for \u003cem\u003eVICE\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAGNI\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Threepenny Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSalon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e online, and other publications. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Stanford University, he has received an O. Henry Award and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. He lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50608024912146,"sku":"9780062399106","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d791fefd-c3c6-4ed3-8984-2738a841a30b.jpg?v=1732317069","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/private-citizens-9780062399106","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}