{"product_id":"mood-swings-isbn-9781662602597","title":"Mood Swings","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Yes, \u003ci\u003eMood Swings\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about tech moguls and the collapse of society. Yes, maybe it’s an 'internet novel.' But it’s also so much more than that. And isn’t that lovely, to find a book that transcends its buzzwords? Isn’t it beautiful for a work of art to prove you wrong?\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eSarah Rose Etter, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For fans of Patricia Lockwood’s \u003ci\u003eNo One Is Talking About This\u003c\/i\u003e (2021). An off-kilter, hauntingly hilarious debut novel.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[A] bonkers story . . . Despite the sobering material, this is a hoot.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who's promised a time machine that will make everything normal again—whatever that means.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryone knows something’s off, but nobody can agree on just what it is. Maybe it’s the weather; maybe everyone’s just so damn sensitive these days. Or maybe it’s because the animals of the world have finally had enough, besieging towns and cities and terrorizing their human residents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJenlena and her best friend Daphne are two humanities grads in their early 20s, trying to find their way in a society that has just eradicated all animals for the safety of humanity. In the post-fauna world, Jenlena transforms from an aspiring poet to a gig worker, capitalizing on other people’s grief by selling house plants that have come to replace pets and cosplaying as dogs for pay. Meanwhile Daphne, a once-promising student, flounders in a deep depression, smoking weed and ditching work to hang out with her once famous, now canceled boyfriend. When Jenlena meets the California billionaire Roderick Maeve, and the two become romantically entangled, she is exposed to a new understanding of wealth, power, and the gender economy—just as the world hurtles toward its alleged salvation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarked with Frankie Barnet’s poignant intelligence and sly sense of humor, \u003ci\u003eMood Swings\u003c\/i\u003e is a stand-out debut novel that imagines with pitch-perfect absurdity what comes after life as we know it.\"\u003ci\u003eMood Swings\u003c\/i\u003e is a master class in maximalism . . . The magic here is in the prose. Though the story itself is sprawling, Barnet’s writing is restrained and intentional. Moments that could turn saccharine are made meaningful by astute, almost insulting observations.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSarah Rose Etter, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Barnet can be extremely funny, but her book is more pointed . . . Despite the title, Barnet doesn’t convey the swing and rush of the present so much as its inanity. She’s a devastating parodist.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Katy Waldman, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A delicious satire that gripped me from the first sentence. Frankie Barnet is not only an architect of the surreal and the absurd, but something of an anthropologist keenly observing society's unique derangement. \u003ci\u003eMood Swings\u003c\/i\u003e whips from devastation to euphoria with the same fluidity it takes to doomscroll until the sun rises.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eLayla Halabian, \u003ci\u003eNYLON\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMood Swings\u003c\/i\u003e is hilarious, absurd, and bizarrely prophetic.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSam Franzini, \u003ci\u003eOur Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e★ \u003c\/b\u003e\"Barnet presents a canny portrait of the doomscroll generation, set in an absurdist near-future world . . . This is a sharp satire of a hyperonline culture, with genuinely moving insights into modern inequality and climate crisis throughout . . . This book is a great choice for fans of Patricia Lockwood’s \u003ci\u003eNo One Is Talking About This\u003c\/i\u003e (2021). An off-kilter, hauntingly hilarious debut novel.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Frankie Barnet is hilariously witty in her work . . . I fell in love with the magical realism that has validated everything I’ve felt as a twenty-something-year-old existing in the digital, post-pandemic age. Barnet’s novel is positively exquisite: a satirical love letter to Gen Z, a chaotic diary entry from my personal records, and a parody of the gloomy world dangling right in our faces.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMcKenzie Wurtz, Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe, AZ\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A clever trick mirror for the 'extremely online,' \u003ci\u003eMood Swings\u003c\/i\u003e deserves its devotees.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eLauren Puckett-Pope, \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] clever debut novel . . . a uniquely modern love story.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eLayla Halabian, \u003ci\u003eNYLON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"[A] delightful debut novel . . . Ridiculously funny and as smart as satires come, \u003ci\u003eMood Swings\u003c\/i\u003e is a pitch-perfect Instagram novel attuned for the modern age.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSam Franzini,\u003ci\u003e Our Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For a novel that doesn’t feature a single paradox, time loop, or change to history, \u003ci\u003eMood Swings\u003c\/i\u003e offers up an incisive critique of time-travel narratives . . . [A] darkly satirical novel.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eIan Mond, \u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] bonkers story . . . Despite the sobering material, this is a hoot.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"There is a lot in this novel that should feel deeply strange . . . And yet, this surreal world full of tech oligarchs and unmoored 20-somethings feels all too close to home, as if we’re looking at our current reality through a funhouse mirror.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBustle, \u003c\/i\u003e\"Most Anticipated\" Book of Spring 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Frankie Barnet's propulsive, wholly original novel probes our dark preoccupations and our sources of hope in a seemingly hopeless world. Whether digging into the consequences of climate change, the allure of tech billionaires, the repercussions of cancel culture, or the love\/hate dynamics of intimate relationships, Barnet's singular voice is dazzling and unexpected. She has that rare ability to be at once poignant and genuinely fun, moving and totally hilarious. This book cracked my brain open in the best way possible—I'm obsessed and want everyone to read it!\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eAlexandra Chang, author of \u003ci\u003eDays of Distraction\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What a wild ride—Frankie Barnet has written a fast, funny, witty, chilling first novel that, while ostensibly about a future or alternative reality, summons up the feeling of living in \u003ci\u003ethis\u003c\/i\u003e reality with startling acuity.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eGeorge Saunders, Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLincoln in the Bardo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMood Swings \u003c\/i\u003eis a book of vicious wit and glittering, feral prose that lingers like a strange dream. Frankie Barnet possesses an enviable agility with language, zipping between characters with the jubilant chaos of a tilt-a-whirl and unspooling a deceptively devastating meditation on power, morality, and the end of the world. I couldn't stop reading once I started, and I can't stop talking about it now that I've finished. You'll want to hold its beating heart to yours; you'll want to keep it as a pet.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eAiden Arata, artist and writer\u003c\/b\u003eFrankie Barnet is the author of a story collection, \u003ci\u003eAn Indoor Kind of Girl,\u003c\/i\u003e and the forthcoming graphic literary novel \u003ci\u003eKim: A Novel Idea\u003c\/i\u003e, both from Metatron Press in Canada. Her fiction has been published in places such as \u003ci\u003eJoyland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEvent Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePRISM International\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Square Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the\u003ci\u003e Best Canadian Stories anthology\u003c\/i\u003e of both 2016 and 2019. She has an MFA from Syracuse University and lives in Montréal.","brand":"Astra House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303199232229,"sku":"NP9781662602597","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781662602597.jpg?v=1767732947","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/mood-swings-isbn-9781662602597","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}