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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A dryly witty (New Yorker) and fabulously revealing (The New York Times Book Review) debut about two siblings-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamity–a Seinfeldian novel of existentialism and sisterhood. 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. Deadpan, dark, and brutally funny, Worry is a sharp portrait of two sisters enduring a dread-filled American moment from a nervy new voice in contemporary fiction.