Jules is an Internet-obsessed twenty-eight-year-old who has finally gotten used to living alone. After a difficult breakup with the man she planned to marry, she suddenly finds herself again with a roommate. Her sister Poppy.

With Poppy’s dark past, and unhinged present, Jules has her hands full. Trying to navigate life on her own was difficult enough. Throw in a three-legged dog, a mother that is turning into a conspiracy theorist, and a father that wants his family to look good, and you have a recipe for disaster. After this year, will she want to continue living with her sister, or will she return to living alone?

So much wonderful in one book. This dark and humorous novel perfectly encapsulates young adults trying to come into their own while still highly influenced by their family’s decisions.

I especially loved the sisters' unique dynamic. The drama between the two felt all too real as someone who grew up with siblings. But I felt the love these two have for each other from the first page and trumped any hard feelings throughout the book.

Overall, I loved everything about this story, from its quirky, fragile characters, to the setting. Everything worked so well in this novel. Highly recommend.

The publisher provided ARC via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

If you have a sister this should be required reading. I laughed, I almost cried (I am hard to move to tears though), and I highlighted the heck out of this book. It is so clever and enjoyable with almost no real plot. If you love emotionally investing in characters and seeing their internal journey's over your standard "plot mountain" then this is the book for you. Dead on with the Frances Ha comp - it's delightful and moving, cannot wait for March!

i’m feeling rather ambivalent about this. i enjoyed reading it for sure but most the time i felt like an intruder to jule’s and poppy’s life like i wasn’t supposed to bare witness to any of it especially jules private thoughts. i thought both of them were fully realized people and i think that’s partly where that feeling comes from. characters in other books feel like just that — characters. but jules and poppy are soooo authentic. the ruthlessness, the grotesque. the repulsion. of having a sibling and being a sibling. i dunno i don’t have any fully fledged thoughts rn. it’s a character driven, slice of life kinda book. no plot. mommy issues!!! stream of consciousness sort of. not much character development (if any) but maybe that’s the point. how much do we really change in a year? how much can a person change if u already are who ur gonna always be? also that ending was brutal and i’m trying to justify it and determine the metaphor???? but i can’t??? maybe we all just exist, miserably, even if we think we don’t. a lot of things did come full circle for me tho in that last chapter and clearly tanner was diligently planting seeds throughout the book which i appreciated very much.

anyways thank u netgalley and scribner for the arc in exchange for an honest review 🤗

WORRY is a tender, laugh-out-loud, gross and realistic novel. Following her mental health struggles and subsequent time living at home with her parents, Poppy moves to NYC with her sister Jules. Tanner does a brilliant job uniting the fickleness and convivial atmosphere of sisterhood. Down to the minicscule arguments of leaving a towel on the floor and anxiety that comes with properly wording a text message, this novel is worth everything to me.

"worry" is a novel following two sisters, poppy and jules, who start living together in new york city. jules has a job as an editor that she is not satisfied with, and poppy is somewhat of a freeloader. both of them are obsessed with social media and the internet.

this novel is really just popular social media driven buzz words over and over again. stale trends, stale memes. the relationship between the two sisters and their parents is very interesting and is the highlight of the novel. i enjoyed reading about jewish activism, but i feel more could have been done there.

there essentially is no plot. the ending is rather triggering for no reason, so if you are squeamish around animal abuse, avoid at all costs. it was incessant droning on and on about nothing. there were moments for real introspection, but nothing ever comes to fruition. this novel makes you feel numb and dead. also, big trigger warning for antisemitism.

thank you to netgalley and the publisher for an arc in exchange for an honest review.

I read this in under a day. I'm not sure why, but I found myself deeply invested in the lives of Poppy and Jules. While very little happens in this book.---Jules spends her days on social media, jobs come and go, the two sisters interact with hardly anyone but each other, they get a dog---there's so much careful character psychology that I was so game, and I felt safe in the hands of Alexandra Tanner.

I understand the comparisons to Frances Ha (the sisters know each other so well, like Frances and Sophie), and I understand the comparison to Lockwood's novel too, especially as the Internet is handled, and this does feel like a very distinctly contemporary novel (though it's set in 2019, where the question of Donald Trump's re-election looms). But this also feels like it's own odd animal.

The two sisters aren't necessarily disaffected---they feel a lot actually, Poppy having survived a suicide attempt---and, in general, the two sisters are prickly. But I felt deeply for them. As I said, I grew invested. I loved this book.

Thanks to the publisher for the e-galley.

- The one thing I loved about the book is how it really focuses on Poppy and Jules relationship. I like how the main focus during the book is their conversations and it make it feel like you are listening to their conversations and are a fly on the wall. I found the characters compelling and I wanted to like the book. It was just hard for me to get through. I wished I loved this book, and here is so many things I should love about it but it was really hard for me to get through the main reason I got through it is because I wanted to see how Poppy and Jules progress throughout the book.
- I felt like the ending was a bit abrupt and I wanted to know what happened after it. I even flipped back to make sure I was not missing something.
- I appreciated being able to to read this book. Thanks to the publisher and Net Gallery.

Brilliant! The writing is hilarious, twisted, and poignant. This book is for anyone who has ever sat and wondered about the absurdity of existing, especially now that we carry these little computers in our pocket that overwhelm us with the tragic, the ordinary, and the beautiful parts of life- all in one afternoon doom scroll!

Worry captures the complexity of sisterhood, in all its volatility and glory. Jules and Poppy know the core of each other- better than they know themselves. And in some ways, they don’t know each other at all.

It’s about confronting the inevitability of the mundane. How a banal question like “and what are you up to” can lead to an existential crisis. I was most interested in how Jules treads the line precarious line between consumer and artist. Jules has an album on her phone filled with screenshots and pictures that say something about humanity and the cultural moment we exist in but also don’t say anything at all.

Readers of Sally Rooney will enjoy Worry- but they’ll also get something entirely distinct and a fresh from Alexandra Tanner.

Thank you to the publisher and Net Galley for the ARC for review.

If you've ever had a parent spout Alex Jones conspiracy theories, this one is for you. Sisters Jules and Poppy move in together in New York following Poppy's mental health struggles and subsequent time spent living at home with their parents. She can't take it anymore, so she moves up with Jules in Brooklyn as a temporary fix while she looks for a job and a place to live. A year late, she's still there.

Jules has a habit of stalking mommy bloggers of all right wing types online, which is also a habit I have, so I got a huge kick out of that. Unfortunately, for Jules, it becomes a crutch and a way to avoid engaging in real life, as we see things continue to spiral for her.

We also witness the hilarious and sometimes toxic relationship between the sisters and their mom, as she spirals down the MLM and Messianic path. I don't have siblings, but I've always been close with my parents because of that, and wow, does this book really capture the way you sometimes treat family because you trust they'll always be there, even though everyone has a breaking point.

This book doesn't have much plot, but the hilarious writing keeps you so engaged. I kept sharing lines with my friends while reading because it was just so funny and sharp.

My one note is that the final scene left me super upset, probably because I was recently a witness to a violent dog fight and still have some ~trauma~ from it. It was a helpful way to show how Jules is just completely tuning out of her life.

Overall, this book was everything I hoped it would be. Highly recommend if you like toxic family dynamics, following Mormon and MLM mommy bloggers online, and/or hilarious dialogue that also hits you where it hurts.