'Not to be missed if you want to keep up with the literary zeitgeist' GQ

'A novel to be torn through and passed around and treasured' Megan Nolan

'I read this book in a night, breathless and enraptured; wanting to save everyone in it, and wanting to watch them burn forever' Leslie Jamison

Avery is flailing financially and emotionally. Struggling with graduate school and the collection of cultural reports she is supposed to be writing, she dates older men for money, and others for the oblivion their egos offer. In desperation, she takes a job at a right-wing dating app.

Meanwhile her wealthy best friend, Frances, drops out of grad school, gets married, and somehow still manages to finish an experimental documentary about rural isolation and right-wing conspiracy theories. Frances's triumphant return to New York as the toast of the art world sends Avery into a tailspin, pushing her to make a series of dangerous decisions.