She writes fiction, essays, and teaches in the undergraduate creative writing department at Columbia University. Molly McGhee is from a cluster of small towns just north of Nashville, Tennessee. Listed alongside Kelly Link, Victor LaValle, Ann Leckie, and Leigh Bardugo as Lit Hub’s Sci-Fi and Fantasy books to look forward to in 2023.
With a keen sense of her readers, a wry wit, and an undeniable dexterity with language, Molly McGhee’s debut novel is a piercing critique of late-stage capitalism and a reckoning with its true cost. A workplace novel, at once tender, startling, and deeply funny, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is a stunning, critical work of surrealist fiction.
With all the dramatic irony of Charlie Kaufman as written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind touches on a theme most people know all too well-the relentlessly crushing weight of debt. Soon, the lines between life and work, love and hate, right and wrong, even sleep and consciousness, begin to blur. As Abernathy finds his footing in this new role, reality and morality begin to warp around him. If he does well at his new job, where he must audit the minds of workers while they sleep, he might have a chance at a new life. But when a government loan forgiveness program offers him a literal dream job, J onathan Abernathy thinks he’s found his big break. he’s behind on his debts, he has no prospects, no friends, no ambitions. For readers of Patricia Lockwood and Ling Ma, a debut novel for the modern working stiff.
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