Reward System

'If you've been waiting for someone to close the gap on social distancing , to capture the furtive problems of social media , to make you laugh at your own alienation, to wrap your mind around the narcissism of small differences , then Calder is your new best friend, and his debut collection is the must-read book of the year. ' Andrew O'Hagan Julia has landed a fresh start as a chef at an up-and-coming city restaurant. Her ex-boyfriend, Nick, is flirting with sobriety and nobody else. Life should have started to take shape by now, but instead they're trying to make new versions of themselves, searching for a good answer to the question: 'What do you do?' 'An exhilarating and beautiful book by an extraordinarily gifted writer.' Sally Rooney 'Remarkably fresh . . . Calder's writing achieves that rare thing of capturing how it feels to be young.' Esquire