For readers of Jen Beagin and Melissa Broder, Emily Austin returns to the wacky existentialism that made her debut a cult sensation.

GARBAGE GIRL
by Emily Austin
Bloomsbury, Spring 2028
(via The Friedrich Agency)

Photo credit: Bridget Forberg

Rob, a twenty-eight-year-old grocery store custodian, doesn’t know why she can’t keep a friend, and she’s getting tired of cleaning up other people’s shit—literally. Eager to understand what she’s doing wrong, Rob becomes consumed with figuring out why her childhood best friend Dinah ghosted her ten years ago. Between being berated by her Superstore manager, cleaning up after the serial men’s room vandal, and obsessing over her new crush, Bones, Rob tries to track down Dinah. But the more she searches, the more she’s overcome by the creeping feeling that something might be very wrong. What if Dinah didn’t just ghost her—what if something terrible happened?

Emily Austin is the author of four novels, most recently Is This a Cry For Help?, an instant USA Today, Globe & Mail, Quill & Quire, and Toronto Star bestseller. All four of her novels have been Indie Next picks, and her work has been published around the world.