Lonesome Ballroom by Madeline McDonnell

Rescue Press, 2025.

Is this the best college hijinx novel since the 1980s? The no-quarter girliness and pitch-perfect Americanese also make this brodernist anti-venom, except that it's so brainy, convoluted, and antic—Tristram Shandy by way of Lorrie Moore—it might amount to the same thing?