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Magic City Books is proud to welcome Alexandra Tanner for a free, in-store program to celebrate the paperback release of her novel, Worry, on Monday April 14 at 7:00 pm. This event will take place in the Algonquin Room at Magic City Books, 221 E. Archer Street in the Tulsa Arts District.Named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, NPR, Vogue, the Washington Post, Electric Lit, and more, Worry is a debut novel that follows two sisters-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamity--a Seinfeldian novel for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney.
Worry will be published in paperback by Scribner on April 8, 2025. Copies will be available at Magic City Books starting April 8 and will be for sale at the event. To purchase a copy online visit: https://magiccitybooks.square.site/product/worry/3145.
About Worry
It's March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold--anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed--has been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought she'd marry when her younger sister Poppy comes to crash. Indefinitely. Poppy, a year and a half out from a suicide attempt only Jules knows about, searches for work and meaning in Brooklyn while Jules spends her days hate-scrolling the feeds of Mormon mommy bloggers and waiting for life to happen.
Then the hives that've plagued Poppy since childhood flare up. Jules's uterus turns against her. Poppy brings home a maladjusted rescue dog named Amy Klobuchar. The girls' mother, a newly devout Messianic Jew, starts falling for the same deep-state conspiracy theories as Jules's online mommies. Jules, halfheartedly struggling to scrape her way to the source of her ennui, slowly and cruelly comes to blame Poppy for her own insufficiencies as a friend, a writer, and a sister. And Amy Klobuchar might have rabies. As the year shambles on and a new decade looms near, a disastrous trip home to Florida forces Jules and Poppy--comrades, competitors, constant fixtures in each other's lives--to ask themselves what they want their futures to look like, and whether they'll spend them together or apart.
"A tragicomic portrait of urban millennial life" ( Shelf Awareness), Worry is a "riotously funny and wryly existential" ( Harper's Bazaar) novel of sisterhood from a nervy new voice in contemporary fiction.
Alexandra Tanner is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn, NY. Her stories, essays, and reviews appear in Granta, The New York Times Book Review, The Baffler, and Jewish Currents, among other outlets. Her first novel, Worry, was named one of the best books of 2024 by The New Yorker, Vogue, the BBC, The Washington Post, NPR, and more; it’s out now in hardcover wherever books are sold, and the paperback will be available in April of 2025.
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Magic City Books, 221 E. Archer St. ,Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
