Reward System

Jem Calder

From Shelf: HB fiction published w/c 2nd May 2022

For fans of Patricia Lockwood and Ben Lerner, audacious fictions of a generation wondering: what now?** Chosen as a Guardian, White Review and NPR Book of the Year 2022 **'Reward System is an exhilarating and beautiful book by an extraordinarily gifted writer.

For fans of Patricia Lockwood and Ben Lerner, audacious fictions of a generation wondering: what now?** Chosen as a Guardian, White Review and NPR Book of the Year 2022 **'Reward System is an exhilarating and beautiful book by an extraordinarily gifted writer. Reading these stories, I found myself thinking newly and differently about contemporary life.' SALLY ROONEY Julia has landed a fresh start - at a 'pan-European' restaurant.'Imagine that,' says her mother.'I'm imagining.'Nick is flirting with sobriety and nobody else. Did you know: adults his age are now more likely to live with their parents than a romantic partner?Life should have started to take shape by now - but instead we're trying on new versions of ourselves, swiping left and right, searching for a convincing answer to that question: 'What do you do?'Reward System is a set of ultra-contemporary and electrifyingly fresh fictions about a generation of the cusp; the story of two people enmeshed in Zooms and lockdowns, loneliness and love.