NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A âdryly wittyâ (The New Yorker) and âfabulously revealingâ (The New York Times Book Review) debut that follows two sisters-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamityâa Seinfeldian novel for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney.
Itâs March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Goldâanxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessedâhas been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought sheâd marry when her younger sister Poppy comes to crash. Indefinitely. Poppy, a year and a half out from a suicide attempt only Jules knows about, searches for work and meaning in Brooklyn while Jules spends her days hate-scrolling the feeds of Mormon mommy bloggers and waiting for life to happen.
Then the hives thatâve plagued Poppy since childhood flare up. Julesâs uterus turns against her. Poppy brings home a maladjusted rescue dog named Amy Klobuchar. The girlsâ mother, a newly devout Messianic Jew, starts falling for the same deep-state conspiracy theories as Julesâs online mommies. Jules, halfheartedly struggling to scrape her way to the source of her ennui, slowly and cruelly comes to blame Poppy for her own insufficiencies as a friend, a writer, and a sister. And Amy Klobuchar might have rabies. As the year shambles on and a new decade looms near, a disastrous trip home to Florida forces Jules and Poppyâcomrades, competitors, constant fixtures in each otherâs livesâto ask themselves what they want their futures to look like, and whether theyâll spend them together or apart.
âA tragicomic portrait of urban millennial lifeâ (Shelf Awareness), Worry is a âriotously funny and wryly existentialâ (Harperâs Bazaar) novel of sisterhood from a nervy new voice in contemporary fiction.