Private Citizens

Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the noughties, Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century. 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 humour and pain, the four estranged friends stagger through the Bay Area’s maze of tech start-ups, protestors, gentrifiers, karaoke bars, house parties and cultish self-help seminars, washing up in each other’s lives once again.

'Tulathimutte is a big talent.’, ‘A brilliant novel – whip smart, hilarious and entirely engrossing.’, ‘In this lovingly portrayed hell, the body is excess baggage, and selfdoubt poses dangers so grave only a writer would risk it. It’s not a satire, but an eloquent social novel bristling with logic.’ , ‘A sketch of the way US millennials, and the only slightly older men and women who employ them, live now’., ‘At its very best it strikes one as a particularly savage episode of Seinfeld.’

Tony Tulathimutte is a graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and he has written for the New York Times, VICE, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Believer, N+1, Playboy, The Paris Review, The LA Review of Books, and others. His work has received an O. Henry Award and a Macdowell Fellowship, and he’s appeared as a guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers. He lives in New York.Follow Tony on Twitter @tonytulawww.tonytula.com