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An Amazon Best Book of the Month in the Literature & Fiction Category
A Buzzfeed “Most Exciting” Book of 2016
A Flavorwire “Most Anticipated” Book of 2016
New York Magazine calls Private Citizens "the first great millennial novel."
Emma Cline calls it "brilliant."
From a brilliant new literary talent comes a sweeping comic portrait of privilege, ambition, and friendship in millennial San Francisco. With the social acuity of Adelle Waldman and the murderous wit of Martin Amis, Tony Tulathimutte’s Private Citizens is a brainy, irreverent debut—This Side of Paradise for a new era.
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 and pain, the four estranged friends�stagger through the Bay Area’s maze of tech startups, protestors, gentrifiers, karaoke bars, house parties, and cultish self-help seminars, washing up in each other’s lives once again.�
A wise and searching depiction of a generation grappling with privilege and finding grace in failure, Private Citizens is as expansively intelligent as it is full of heart.
- Sales Rank: #63670 in Books
- Published on: 2016-02-09
- Released on: 2016-02-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .86" w x 5.31" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 384 pages
Review
“The first great millennial novel.”
— New York magazine
“It may well be time that we start asking whose writing will populate the ‘millennial canon.’ Tony Tulathimutte’s debut novel, Private Citizens, is the answer to that question.”
— Village Voice
“[A] hilarious portrait of youthful self-centeredness.”
— The Paris Review
“This season, my literary accessory choice is Tony Tulathimutte’s Private Citizens.”
— Vogue
“A funny, unflinching portrayal of young people today, nasty neuroses and all."
— Huffington Post
“Private Citizens succeeds on the charm of its verisimilitude and the brilliance of its observations.”
— SF Weekly
“Tulathimutte’s accomplished, witty, often hilarious debut transforms the Bay Area into a Balzacian microcosm that seems to contain every germ of contemporary American life and youth.”
— Flavorwire
“We know millennials as bogeychildren of alarmist trend pieces and the catchall hand-wringing of an aging commentariat. Tulathimutte is on the front line of writers showing that they’re also worthy heroes and heroines of the American novel.”
— Vulture
“Tony Tulathimutte’s brilliant debut novel is hilarious and heartbreaking all at once--a spot-on, satifical portrait of modern San Francisco and the privilege that inhabits it...Brimming with wit and heart, Private Citizens is an impressive debut from a sharp new voice.”
— Buzzfeed
“Private Citizens is a combustible combination of acrobatic language, dead-on observations and hilarious, heartbreaking storytelling. Tulathimutte has created characters that are hard to forget--first they’ll make you want to strangle them, then you’ll end up falling in love with them.”
— Angela Flournoy, National Book Award finalist and author of The Turner House
“A spot-on rendering of contemporary San Francisco in all its numinous hippie- hipster- techbro- burnout- activist-ridden glory. But it is the book’s style that makes it stand out. Tony Tulathimutte writes sentences with a reckless verve that reminds one of the best of David Foster Wallace. He’s a major American talent.”
— Karan Mahajan, author of Family Planning and The Association of Small Bombs
“If Evelyn Waugh and Tom Wolfe had a baby, one who wrote sensibly about the subset of people that Dave Eggers has written about whimsically, that baby would probably be Tony Tulathimutte.”
— Paris Review
“Tony Tulathimutte’s Private Citizens is my favorite kind of novel: an entrancing narrative in which important ideas lurk around the corners and behind the curtains. It enchants, entertains, sometimes makes me chew my nails in dread, sometimes makes me laugh my ass off, and never, ever doubts my intelligence.”
— Benjamin Hale, author of The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
“[A] razor-sharp debut...Witty, unsparing, and unsettlingly precise, Tulathimutte empathizes with his subjects even as he (brilliantly) skewers them. A satirical portrait of privilege and disappointment with striking emotional depth.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Tony Tulathimutte is a virtuoso of words... [his] writing edifies and entertains in language that’s highbrow yet unwholesome-gourmet junk food, like the cereal-milk-flavored soft-serve at Momofuku Milk Bar.”
— Vice.com
“A funny, unflinching portrayal of young people today, nasty neuroses and all.”
— Huffington Post
“Private Citizens is a freak of literature--a novel so authentic, hilarious, elegantly plotted, and heartbreaking that I’d follow it anywhere. Tony Tulathimutte is a singular intellect with an uncanny 40/20 vision on the world.”
— Jennifer duBois, author of Cartwheel and A Partial History of Lost Causes
“Private Citizens is the product of a whirring intellect with brilliance to burn. It examines the anxieties and privileges of the Millennial Generation as well as any book I’ve come across. Reading Tony Tulathimutte is like watching a mad genius at work in his laboratory, conjuring the magnificent and the monstrous into life.”
— Anthony Marra, New York Times-bestselling author of The Tsar of Love and Techno and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
“Tulathimutte’s debut is poetic and verbose...an impressive start for an edgy new writer.”
— Booklist
“From a Here and Now that lends itself all too easily to caricature comes Private Citizens: a hilarious and gutsy novel that does the braver thing, reinvesting the world we know with humanity. Tony Tulathimutte’s satire cuts deep, bur has a tender belly--and this book will leave you raw with feeling and aching at the ribs.”
— Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine
“Tulathimutte exhibits a talent for satire, and a willingness to embrace brutal reality and outright absurdity.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Rabidly intelligent, subversive, and heartfelt, Private Citizens is a comedy, a love story, and a horrifyingly adept critique of life in the digital age. With humor and grace, Tulathimutte brings clarity to characters who might otherwise be blurred in the whirlwind of self-performance. An important and deliciously readable book by a brilliant new voice that poignantly upends contemporary ideas of authenticity.”
— Jennifer Percy, author of Demon Camp
“Tony Tulathimutte’s militantly ironic debut novel, Private Citizens, is set in San Francisco during a golden hour for upper millennials...[It] takes its title as a paradox, or as a challenge...The one thing the novel can still do better than other art forms is represent inner life...Tulathimutte’s realism tends to be hysterical as in ha ha...I was riddled by Tulathimutte’s ending.”
— Sarah Nicole Prickett in Bookforum
“This season, my literary accessory of choice is Tony Tulathimutte’s Private Citizens.”
— Maya Singer, Vogue.com
From the Back Cover
From a brilliant new literary talent comes a sweeping comic portrait of privilege, ambition, and friendship in millennial San Francisco. With the social acuity of Adelle Waldman and the murderous wit of Martin Amis, Tony Tulathimutte’s�Private Citizens�is a brainy, irreverent debut—This Side of Paradise�for a new era.
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 and pain, the four estranged friends�stagger through the Bay Area’s maze of tech startups, protestors, gentrifiers, karaoke bars, house parties, and cultish self-help seminars, washing up in each other’s lives once again.�
A wise and searching depiction of a generation grappling with privilege and finding grace in failure,�Private Citizens�is as expansively intelligent as it is full of heart.
About the Author
Tony Tulathimutte has written for VICE, N+1, AGNI, Salon, The New Yorker online, Threepenny Review, and others. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and has received an O. Henry Award, a Truman Capote fellowship, a MacDowell Colony fellowship, and the Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award.�
Formerly he worked as a UX consultant in San Francisco, co-authoring a book of research methods. His website is at tonytula.com.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Its premise has a great deal of promise
By James
Private Citizens is a novel that reads as though it is trying to evoke Edith Wharton and instead hits closer to an episode of Sex in the City that should have been left on the editing floor.
Its premise has a great deal of promise: it follows four Millennials making their way in life and love in contemporary San Fransisco. It is one of the first coming of age novels to feature that generation and that city, both of which have become culturally very important and interesting.
The novel falls short in the execution phase. Readers are presented with a disabled entrepreneur who never reflects on her disability, a mentally ill main character without any insights into his mental illness, and a victim of childhood rape who is so completely defended that we (and her closest friends) are never sure of the veracity of her origin story.
Instead of emotion and self-reflection, the characters interact in lengthy paragraphs about literary deconstructionism, postmodern philosophy, transcultural racism, feminist theory, and a host of other liberal-arts-senior-seminar-worthy topics for which most of us would no longer sign up.
Some readers might interpret those vast swaths of the book as satire, or funny, or impressive. But good editing is most helpful when it involves gently steering enthusiastic authors away from that sort of self-congratulatory intellectual muscle-flexing, and a more active editor would have served the novel very well.
Ultimately, readers who are taken with the play on words in the title of this novel (something about defended personalities despite the transparency of the constructed self among Millennials) are likely to find the rest of the book clever and revelatory. If that’s not you, keep on moving: there’s nothing to see here.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Style and Substance
By Ulysses616
This is a brilliant novel, ingeniously structured and masterfully written. Tulathimutte's prose is full of the kind of playful, punning erudition of writers like David Foster Wallace and Nabokov. The book circles around four "friends" living in the Bay Area, and it devotes attention to each of the four points of view with almost surgical symmetry. I was most impressed by the author's thoroughly convincing inhabitation of various vocabularies/jargons--he's as fluent in the nuances of tech-speak as he is with the economic and logistical demands of running a non-profit company, and his grasp of porn lingo is hysterically funny. In some ways, the book covers terrain similar to that in Jonathan Franzen's Purity but succeeds where that overhyped tome flounders. Franzen obviously did not grasp the ins and outs of Internet technology so he built up his Assange-like hacker character through fairly programmatic and unconvincing Freudian stuff. Tulathimutte's characters are so vibrant and convincing because he knows seemingly everything about them and what they devote their lives to. And while I can understand to some degree the reasons why other reviewers have pointed up the unlikeable nature of these four millennials, I a) found them quite sympathetic and morally complex, and b) don't think unsavory characters are any kind of impediment to great fiction anyway--look no further than Lolita for proof of this, and Lolita is clearly a major influence on this novel (not thematically but stylistically).
I laughed out loud on about every other page of this book, and on every single page I felt the urge to underline at least one sentence for its dazzle, its truth, its accuracy, a quality I hadn't felt since I read DeLillo's Underworld. This is, straight up, a great novel.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
For fans of satire
By Matilda
3.5 stars
People complaining about how terrible the characters behaved in this novel was actually what made me want to pick it up. Yes, I like fckd up fictional characters. When there's a point, which there certainly was. This isn't people just being crappy to be crappy, the author was making a point/observing our society--sometimes representing it absurdly which led to moments of me laughing while thinking I should not be laughing at this.
You have four main characters living in San Fransisco whose lives intersected in college and are once again going to intersect told in different blocks of time. They each range from struggling to be to holy-hotmess. Their actions, interactions, lives, thoughts take us through identity issues, substance abuse, disability, racism, mental illness, social activism, the weight of our choices/beliefs... as they each try and make sense of their current life or try and accomplish their goals.
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