Description
Julia has landed a fresh start at a "pan-European" restaurant. "Imagine that," says her mother. "I'm imagining."
Nick is flirting with sobriety—and with nobody else. Did you know adults his age are now more likely to live with their parents than with a romantic partner?
Life should have started to take shape by now, but instead we're trying on new versions of ourselves, swiping left and right, searching for a convincing answer to that question: "What do you do?"
Reward System is a set of ultra-contemporary, electrifyingly fresh fictions about a generation on the cusp: the story of two people enmeshed in Zooms and lockdowns, loneliness and love.
For fans of Patricia Lockwood and Ben Lerner. Audacious fictions of a generation: what now?
Endorsements
Chosen as a Guardian, White Review and NPR Book of the Year 2022.
"Reward System is an exhilarating and beautiful book by an extraordinarily gifted writer. Reading these stories, I found myself thinking newly and differently about contemporary life." — Sally Rooney
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