Tony Tulathimutte

"Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the aughts, Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century--call it a loving satire, a gleefully rude comedy of manners, Middlemarch for millennials. 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 humor...