Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

Trippy, incisive, riotously funny – ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN

[An] insightfully nightmarish parable – HALLE BUTLER

A stunner – NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH

Luminous … as if George Saunders infiltrated the Severance writers’ room – WASHINGTON POST

A workplace novel. A love story. A dream you can’t wake from…

Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind presents Jonathan Abernathy, a loser. Unemployed and behind on his student loan repayments, the only thing Abernathy has in abundance is debt.

When a secretive government loan forgiveness programme offers him a job he can literally do in his sleep, Abernathy thinks he’s found his big break. Hired as a dream auditor, he finds himself entering the dreams of white-collar workers to flag their anxieties for removal at night so they'll be more productive in the day. If Abernathy can at least appear competent, might he have a chance at a new life?

As Abernathy tries to find his footing in this new gig, reality and morality begin to warp around him. Soon, the lines between life and work, right and wrong, and even sleep and consciousness, have blurred and Abernathy begins to wonder just what he might have signed away…

Wildly imaginative, laced with black humour and full of close-to-the-bone truths, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is the cult workplace novel that’s like nothing else you've read before.

Surrealist … A scathing critique of capitalism – TIME

Imagine the movie Inception, but populated by the middle-management workers in David Graeber’s book Bullshit Jobs – NEW YORK TIMES

An excitingly original writer, inventing much needed and killingly funny satires for contemporary work and dreams of success – HOLLY PESTER

A revelation – HILARY LEICHTER

An original mind brimming over with invention – BEN MARCUS

An exuberant, poignant, freewheeling debut … very funny – JEFF VANDERMEER

The spiritual sibling of Severance, but creepier – LITERARY HUB