I’ve waited a long time for Tony Tulathimutte’s follow-up to his novel, Private Citizens, which I’ve already written about glowingly before.1 As with Private Citizens, Rejection is a deeply uncomfortable multi-perspective exploration into sexual and social unhappiness in our contemporary times.
I often find myself astounded, and thankful, that a writer like Tulathimutte exists: a relatively young mainstream male writer who writes about these sordid topics, as opposed to an older one who can be safely grandfathered in. When even things like childless cat ladies and couchfucking are elevated to the highest level of our political discourse, it’s nice to know there are good writers who can honestly reflect our sexually and romantically insecurities.
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