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BANAL NIGHTMARE (paperback available Aug '25)

In a Midwestern college town at the height of the Me Too era, a bunch of simultaneously self-flagellating and self-aggrandizing pseudo-academics sit around, think, and send each other insulting emails. As the impulses and memories they have barely managed to repress begin to surface, their relationships become increasingly deranged.​​​

"Her most accomplished novel.” -The New York Review of Books

“Butler has crafted a novel in which every character proves to be completely, uniquely crazy. Her perverse sense of humor should be studied and celebrated.” -David Sedaris

"Unbelievably funny." -Jia Tolentino

"So funny, so smart, utterly vicious—just brilliant." -Zadie Smith

"I almost felt like I was being held hostage" -Chicago Tribune

"[Kimberly] is a horrid creation, a highlight of the novel." -The Times London

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