{"product_id":"private-citizens-a-novel-isbn-9780062399106","title":"Private Citizens: A Novel","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 | \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 | \u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003ePrivate Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e is a freak of literature--a novel so authentic, hilarious, elegantly plotted, and heartbreaking that I’d follow it anywhere. Tony Tulathimutte is a singular intellect with an uncanny 40\/20 vision on the world.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJennifer duBois, author of Cartwheel and A Partial History of Lost Causes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003ePrivate Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e is the product of a whirring intellect with brilliance to burn. It examines the anxieties and privileges of the Millennial Generation as well as any book I’ve come across. Reading Tony Tulathimutte is like watching a mad genius at work in his laboratory, conjuring the magnificent and the monstrous into life.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnthony Marra, New York Times-bestselling author of The Tsar of Love and Techno and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003ePrivate Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e is the product of a whirring intellect with brilliance to burn...Reading Tony Tulathimutte is like watching a mad genius at work in his laboratory, conjuring the magnificent and the monstrous into life.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnthony Marra, New York Times-bestselling author of The Tsar of Love and Techno and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] razor-sharp debut...Witty, unsparing, and unsettlingly precise, Tulathimutte empathizes with his subjects even as he (brilliantly) skewers them. A satirical portrait of privilege and disappointment with striking emotional depth.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A spot-on rendering of contemporary San Francisco in all its numinous hippie- hipster- techbro- burnout- activist-ridden glory. But it is the book’s style that makes it stand out. Tony Tulathimutte writes sentences with a reckless verve that reminds one of the best of David Foster Wallace. He’s a major American talent.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaran Mahajan, author of Family Planning and The Association of Small Bombs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Tony Tulathimutte writes sentences with a reckless verve that reminds one of the best of David Foster Wallace. He’s a major American talent.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaran Mahajan, author of Family Planning and The Association of Small Bombs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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: Tulathimutte loves these imperfect young humans while seeing them for who they are.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, “The Funniest Novels Since Catch-22”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The first great millennial novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It may well be time that we start asking whose writing will populate the ‘millennial canon.’ Tony Tulathimutte’s debut novel, \u003cem\u003ePrivate Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e, is the answer to that question.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003ePrivate Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e is a brilliant novel--whip-smart, hilarious, and entirely engrossing.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmma Cline, New York Times bestselling author of The Girls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Excellent.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If Evelyn Waugh and Tom Wolfe had a baby, one who wrote sensibly about the subset of people that Dave Eggers has written about whimsically, that baby would probably be Tony Tulathimutte.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Jimenez, Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Tony Tulathimutte is a virtuoso of words... [his] writing edifies and entertains in language that’s highbrow yet unwholesome-gourmet junk food, like the cereal-milk-flavored soft-serve at Momofuku Milk Bar.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVice.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This season, my literary accessory of choice is Tony Tulathimutte’s \u003cem\u003ePrivate Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaya Singer, Vogue.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This season, my literary accessory choice is Tony Tulathimutte’s \u003cem\u003ePrivate Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Tony Tulathimutte’s brilliant debut novel is hilarious and heartbreaking all at once--a spot-on, satifical portrait of modern San Francisco and the privilege that inhabits it...Brimming with wit and heart, \u003cem\u003ePrivate Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e is an impressive debut from a sharp new voice.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Tony Tulathimutte’s militantly ironic debut novel, \u003cem\u003ePrivate Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e, is set in San Francisco during a golden hour for upper millennials...[It] takes its title as a paradox, or as a challenge...The one thing the novel can still do better than other art forms is represent inner life...Tulathimutte’s realism tends to be hysterical as in \u003cem\u003eha ha\u003c\/em\u003e...I was riddled by Tulathimutte’s ending.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarah Nicole Prickett in Bookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“We know millennials as bogeychildren of alarmist trend pieces and the catchall hand-wringing of an aging commentariat. Tulathimutte is on the front line of writers showing that they’re also worthy heroes and heroines of the American novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003ePrivate Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e is a combustible combination of \u003cb\u003eacrobatic language, dead-on observations\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003ehilarious\u003c\/b\u003e, heartbreaking storytelling. Tulathimutte has created characters that are hard to forget--first they’ll make you want to strangle them, then you’ll end up falling in love with them.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngela Flournoy, National Book Award finalist and author of The Turner House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“From a Here and Now that lends itself all too easily to caricature comes \u003cem\u003ePrivate Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e: a \u003cb\u003ehilarious and gutsy\u003c\/b\u003e novel that does the braver thing, reinvesting the world we know with humanity. Tony Tulathimutte’s satire cuts deep, bur has a tender belly--and this book will leave you \u003cb\u003eraw with feeling and aching at the ribs\u003c\/b\u003e.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A \u003cb\u003ehilarious and gutsy\u003c\/b\u003e novel that does the braver thing, reinvesting the world we know with humanity. Tony Tulathimutte’s satire cuts deep, bur has a tender belly--and this book will leave you \u003cb\u003eraw with feeling and aching at the ribs\u003c\/b\u003e.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888306581733,"sku":"NP9780062399106","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062399106.jpg?v=1730228782","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/private-citizens-a-novel-isbn-9780062399106","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}