Captivating and mundane at the same time. I liked the writing style a lot and fell in love with the characters. I can see myself recommending this book to other readers.

I don’t feel like it was anything groundbreaking. But I don’t need groundbreaking. I love millennial ennui and this hit the mark for me. I really enjoyed the dialogue and the slang didn’t feel forced or cringey to me like it can when people try to make things very modern. I love my sisters but we have big age gaps so I didn’t really relate to that part of it, but it felt so real and it make me want to call myself and tell her she’s a bitch. I really liked it

I loved this book. Set in New York, the story focuses on the sisterly dynamic between Jules and Poppy. Poppy tentatively moves in with Jules as she finds her footing in the city. The mention of Seinfeld in the book’s description pulled me in and the artful way Alexandra Tanner handled “a book about nothing” was very satisfying. I highly recommend this book for fans of Dolly Alderton.

Worry feels like a very contemporary NYC book, with lots of references to Bernie vs. Warren, life on the internet, mlm schemes, etc. I really enjoy the dark and dry humor and the wry voice. I think the prose is fun and lively and the specific intimacy between the sisters is really nicely done. The repeated references to animal brutality really took me out of the book, and it made me think twice about recommending it widely. That said, I think the writer is clearly smart and talented, and I'm eager to read what they put out next.

Worry is about sisters who get along and don't get along, and who get along again. I think. There was not a lot happening in this story to move it ahead, and I didn't feel compelled to find out how the book ends. I had to stop reading at about 37% because I just couldn't get engaged with these sisters who I could not relate to in any way.

Thanks to NetGalley for allowing me to try this unusual book.

What the show Girls thinks it is. Intimate portrait of two mid-to-late twenties sisters in NYC. Highly recommended this freshman novel by Alexandra Tanner.

I read My Year Of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh a couple years ago and have been searching for that high ever since. Worry exceeded my expectations. I absolutely love how raw and real it is. It perfectly captures the sometimes tumultuous, sometimes loving relationship between sisters. Every woman will feel seen at some point in this book. So, so good! Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC. Highly recommend!

Worry by Alexandra Tanner is a wild ride about two sisters and their rather unhinged life in NYC, what it’s like to grown up in and all around each other and what it truly means to be there or not there for someone you care about. It shows the gritty underbelly of sisterly drama and spats without holding back. Reads a lot like Cleopatra and Frankenstein in that modern, of-the-moment speak that Millennials know in and out. Overall an interesting read but I did find it slow between pickups but it was compelling enough to finish!

WORRY is such a one of a kind fun ride of a novel that I loved every second of. The story of two millennial sisters in 2019 in NYC, the ennui and existential dread is captured perfectly by debut novelist Alexandra Tanner. It's also really funny. And dark. And insane.

Jules, the narrator, is the driving force of the novel. Her sister Poppy comes to live with her in her apartment in Brooklyn after a suicide attempt in their Floridian hometown and their relationship is strained and put to the test. They have an absolutely bonkers Mother who will drive you, the reader, crazy as well. You care for these girls, but you also get annoyed with them, but then you also relate to them and their internet addiction and their contemporary problems and it's an endless cycle that is both hilarious and depressing.

I don't have a sister, but I can imagine if I did, this book would be an even wilder ride. There is also a dog hilariously named Amy Klobochar that you will become attached to but if you cannot handle dog injuries, definitely skip this one. It's a tender novel, one that I can't stop thinking about and grateful that I've never read anything like it before. I think it's going to be very popular next year.

I think this was intential but I felt like the sisters who were at the heart of the story were so fleshed out it was almost uncomfortable but everyone else felt flat. I wish it had been a little more even because I didn't really care about anything that happened outside of their bubble two which took away from my enjoyment of the book.

This book simply didn’t arrest me in any way. Perhaps the main characters were too young for me to relate to? I thought the context and setting would engage me, but they weren’t helpful.

Thank you Netgalley for this opportunity, but I never engaged with the characters/plot

Worry is a funny, relatable, and nuanced novel about sisterhood and adulthood, but unfortunately the writing is not strong enough to keep me engaged since the subject is already not something I particularly resonate with. It is almost overbearing with their traumas told to us back to back, with almost no moments of joy in between.

Very few times am I left confused about the experience I just had with a book. Worry is an incredibly unique read in that it openly addresses the relationships between sisters with honesty and such flawless sister banter and language.

The language itself used in the book is so raw and honest- I was shocked several times of conversations between the characters and their parents- and even had myself questioning how “good” or healthy these relationships actually are.

The author develops the characters well- in a way you feel bad for them both, as they appear as lost, Gen g characters trying to find their way and make an impact in the world and in their sibling relationship.

This book is so unique in this, and if you are a sibling or have siblings it is an absolutely entertaining read.

While this book won’t be for everyone- I think the people who are siblings AND take a chance on this book will find it impactful in its’ own unique way. I have praise for this book- and how it made me feel- especially at the ending in which the reader is left with many thoughts.

Thank you Scribner and NetGalley for this ARC!

Worry is about a pair of sisters living together in Brooklyn, trying to scrape by while dealing with their existential ennui. They are kind of terrible people, and annoying, but also relatable and funny enough I found myself chuckling out loud frequently. It captures certain aspects of having siblings well, like how only they can understand the particular craziness of your parents, the normalcy of things like having conversations through the bathroom door while one person is on the toilet, and also how easily you can get under each other’s skin of you spend too much time together. I enjoyed they way they obsessed about and fought over Amy Klobuchar the dog. The writing is observant and disturbing and entertaining. It reminded me of Gary Shteyngart and Ottessa Moshfegh.
Side note- there is brief but repeated reference to a horrific act of animal abuse that really bothered me.
The ending was very abrupt and strange. It accentuated the feeling that nothing and no one had evolved in the book at all.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

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.