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For fans of Rachel Cusk and Patricia Lockwood, an unflinchingly sharp and funny debut novel about the internet, post-postmodern adulthood, and queer identity.

“Numbed by heartbreak, lost in a peculiarly American loneness, the protagonist of Madison Newbound’s haunting novel brings new understandings of identity and sex to old experiences of melancholy and obsession. I’ve never read anything that captures so vividly the distinct texture of desire, at once feverish and vacant, engendered by the infinite scroll of online life. Misrecognition is a brave and blazingly smart debut.”
–GARTH GREENWELL, author of Cleanness

“A shockingly modern and honest debut about isolation and longing in our age of screens. Newbound’s precise style feels fresh and bold. I was mesmerized.”
–JULIA MAY JONAS, author of Vladimir

“Misrecognition casts a spell in coolly detached prose, brilliantly plunging us into the porous membrane between the social and the parasocial. I was blown away by this singular and mesmerizing debut.”
—ANTOINE WILSON, author of Mouth to Mouth

“An astonishingly assured debut. Every interaction is like a mirage, at once familiar and estranging, and in Newbound’s enthralling novel we are all, every one of us, actors.”
—SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT, author of Alice Sadie Celine

“Sleek and sexy, assured yet searching, Misrecognition so perfectly captures the highs and lows of intimacy in the digital age, the loneliness of always being connected but also the soul-rearranging elation of finding someone who shows you to yourself.”
–MICHELLE HART, author of We Do What We Do In the Dark