Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
By Molly McGhee

Trippy, incisive and riotously funny' Alexandra Kleeman, author ofand You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine Precision, humour, heart, this is a stunner' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, bestselling author ofand Chain-Gang All-Stars Luminous … as if George Saunders infiltrated theand Severanceand writers' room'and Washington PostAn original and darkly funny debut novel about work, debt and how we live now, from a thrilling new voice in fiction.Jonathan Abernathy is a loser. Unemployed and behind on his student loan repayments, the only thing Abernathy has in abundance is debt.When a secretive government loan forgiveness programme offers him a job he can literally do in his sleep, Abernathy thinks he's found his big break. Hired as a dream auditor, he finds himself entering the dreams of white-collar workers to flag their anxieties for removal at night so they'll be more productive in the day. If Abernathy can at least appear competent, might he have a chance at a new life?As Abernathy tries to find his footing in this new gig, reality and morality begin to warp around him. Soon, the lines between life and work, right and wrong, and even sleep and consciousness, have blurred and Abernathy begins to wonder just what he might have signed away…Wildly imaginative, laced with black humour and full of close-to-the-bone truths,and Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kindand is the cult workplace novel that's like nothing else you've read before. An original mind brimming over with invention'and Ben Marcus, author ofand The Flame Alphabet An insightfully nightmarish parable of the pervasive ravages of debt … Stone-cold chilling'and Halle Butler, author ofand The New Me An exuberant, poignant, freewheeling debut full of complication and surprise … very funny'and Jeff VanderMeer, author ofand Annihilation Jonathan Abernathyand makes a case for generosity, for the surplus of everyday life, the kind of savings that cannot be bought or sold … Debt can take on a life of it's own, but when it's really good - likeand Jonathan Abernathyand - so can art'Electric Lit The spiritual sibling ofand Severance, but creepier'Literary Hub Surrealist … A scathing critique of capitalism'and Time Funny, freaky, intellectually bold and always from the heart'and Sam Lipsyte, author ofand The Ask'Welcome to the somnambulatory prose of Molly McGhee, where vivid nightmares and lucid tender dreams live side by side … A revelation'and Hilary Leichter, author ofand Temporary