Katherine no longer believes in happiness. At thirty, trapped in a city and stuck in a job she hates, her growing cynicism and biting repel the people she wants to attract and attract the people she knows she should repel. His ex Daniel is not sure he wants his new girlfriend. When Nathan, a friend of both, returns from the psychiatric hospital where he has spent a season and discovers that his mother has become a successful writer and Twitter star by the name of Mother Courage, Katherine, Daniel and Nathan decide to see each other to heal old wounds and reaffirm their friendship. Will the meeting end well? Almost certainly not.
Written in dazzling style and deep sagacity, between ruthless satire and the poignant tale of love and loneliness, Idiopathy lucidly depicts the tangle of relationships and deranged narcissism of a generation obsessed with itself. Targeting militant environmentalism, self-help quackery, and a bizarre livestock epidemic, this novel heralds the arrival of formidable and wildly entertaining talent.