Universality

Remember--words are your weapons, they're your tools, your currency a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of power.

"Original, vital, and unputdownable."--Tess Gunty, National Book Award-winning author of The Rabbit Hutch

Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, in the midst of an illegal rave, a young man is nearly bludgeoned to death with a solid gold bar.

An ambitious young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic newspaper columnist, and a radical anarchist movement that has taken up residence on the farm. She solves the mystery, but her viral expos? raises more questions than it answers. Through a voyeuristic lens, and with a simmering power, Universality focuses on words: what we say, how we say it, and what we really mean.

A thrilling novel from one of the most acclaimed young novelists working today, Universality is a compelling, unsettling celebration of the spectacular, appalling force of language. It dares you to look away.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Published: 03/04/2025
ISBN: 9780593977309
Pages: 176
Weight: 1.25lbs

Review Citations: Library Journal 10/01/2024 pg. 2
Publishers Weekly 01/06/2025