HALLE BUTLER

JILLIAN

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Megan, recently out of college and working a meaningless job as a gastroenterologist's secretary, openly hates all of her friends for being happy and successful. She makes herself feel better by obsessively critiquing the behavior of her co-worker, Jillian, a grotesque optimist whose downfall is precipitated by the purchase of a dog.

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"Sublimely awkward and hilarious." -Chicago Tribune

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"Jillian is one of the funniest books I've read in a long time." -The Rumpus

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"A frank depiction of modern indecency." -Electric Literature

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"Butler is to Schadenfreude as Paula Deen is to butter." -Books and Whatnot

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​National Book Foundation 5 Under 35​

Granta Best of Young American Novelists, 2017