A Glamour Best Book of 2020A Bustle Best Books of 2020Winner of an Audiofile Earphones Award An Entertainment Weekly 30 Hottest Book of the Summer A Refinery2925 Book Youll Want To Read This Summer Selection A Chicago Review of Books 10 Must-Read Books of the Month A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year A Shondaland 15 Hot Books for Summer One of todays most provocative literary writersthe author of the critically-acclaimed Sunshine Stateandthe Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Binary Starcaptures the confused state of modern romance and the egos that inflate it in adark comedy about a woman’s search for acceptance, identity, and financial security in the rise of Trump.Nina is a struggling writer, a college drop-out, a liar, and a cheater. More than anything she wants love. She deserves it. From the burned-out suburbs of Florida to the anonymous squalor of New York City, she eats through an incestuous cast of characters in search of it: her mother, a narcissistic lesbian living in a nudist polycule; Odessa, a single mom with even worse taste in men than Nina; Seth, an artist whose latest show is comprised of three Tupperware containers full of trash; Brian, whose roller-coaster affair with Nina is the most stable relationship in his life; and Aaron, an aspiring filmmaker living at home with his parents, with whom Nina begins to write her magnum opus. Ninas quest for fulfillment is at once darkly comedic, acerbically acute, and painfully humana scathing critique of contemporary society, and a tender examination of our anguished yearning for connection in an era defined by detachment.