Quick, playful, self-deprecating

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Sharp and funny ... A commanding debut by a writer of intense precision and restraint

NEW YORK TIMES

Numbed by heartbreak, lost in a peculiarly American loneness, the protagonist of Madison Newbound's haunting novel brings new understandings of identity and sex to old experiences of melancholy and obsession. I've never read anything that captures so vividly the distinct texture of desire, at once feverish and vacant, engendered by the infinite scroll of online life. Misrecognition is a brave and blazingly smart debut

GARTH GREENWELL

Sleek and sexy, assured yet searching, Misrecognition so perfectly captures the highs and lows of intimacy in the digital age, the loneliness of always being connected but also the soul-rearranging elation of finding someone who shows you to yourself

MICHELLE HART, author of We Do What We Do In the Dark

An astonishingly assured debut. Every interaction is like a mirage, at once familiar and estranging, and in Newbound's enthralling novel we are all, every one of us, actors

SARAH BLAKLY-CARTWRIGHT, author of Alice, Sadie, Celine

Misrecognition casts a spell in coolly detached prose, brilliantly plunging us into the porous membrane between the social and the parasocial. I was blown away by this singular and mesmerizing debut

ANTOINE WILSON, author of Mouth to Mouth