Author: Tony Tulathimutte
Publisher: William Morrow
Date of publication: February 2016
“Acrobatic language, dead-on observations, and hilarious,
heartbreaking storytelling.”—Angela Flournoy, National Book Award finalist and
author of The Turner House
Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college
grads in the aughts, Private Citizensembraces the contradictions of
our new century—call it a loving satire, a gleefully rude comedy of manners,
Middlemarch for 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, Private Citizens follows the four
estranged friends as they 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.
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.
About Tony Tulathimutte
Tony Tulathimutte has written for VICE, AGNI, The
Threepenny Review, Salon, The New Yorker 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.
Tony’s Tour Stops
Wednesday, February 10th: Gspotsylvania:
Ramblings from a Reading Writer Who Rescues Birds and Beasts
Tuesday, February 16th: Raven
Haired Girl
Monday, February 22nd: A Lovely Bookshelf on the Wall
Tuesday, February 23rd: From the TBR Pile
Wednesday, February 24th: You Can Read Me Anything
Thursday, February 25th: Patricia’s Wisdom
Thursday, February 25th: A Bookish Way of Life
Friday, February 26th: Worth Getting in Bed For
TBD: I’m
Shelf-ish
2 comments:
This sounds fantastic. Thanks for enticing me to check this one out without giving away too much about the story!
Thanks for featuring this book for the tour!
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