Attention-Seeking Behaviour

Attention-Seeking Behaviourby Aea Varfis van Warmelo I have never told anyone about this before. There is no way to prove that it happened, but why would I lie? The narrator of Attention Seeking Behaviour thinks you should know about the body she found in the park. She thinks you should know about her sex life, which is fulfilling and systematic. She thinks you should know that she is a writer, that she is complex, creative and nasty. But above all, she thinks you should know

her estranged father has died

Nour begins a series of fevered letters to his sister – who has been estranged from Mouna and from Egypt for many years – in an attempt to reconcile what both siblings know about this mercurial woman

Give yourself the day in bed to read it

And how can life continue to flourish under conditions that are increasingly toxic

all mammal – suspended within the mechanics of social life

Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker

and was nominated for the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction and named one of the best books of 2024 by The New Yorker

‘ Anika Jade Levy

The termination point of American life examined by the terminal American artist

of resistance

It’s impossible to feel the same way about your home and how you furnish it after reading this joyful

rigorous and totally original