MixedThe Rumpus\"The insidious and satiric dystopian elements of Kleeman’s story are inventive and will appeal to readers of Hubert Selby Jr.’s Requiem for a Dream, Tom Perrotta’s The Leftovers, and Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story ... Given A’s intellectual paralysis, limited range of emotions, limited topics of reflection, and overwhelming and profoundly uninteresting narcissism, the novel’s nearly 200 pages of blank affect, paranoid rambling, and banal questioning of a tenuous romantic relationship make for challenging and intermittently aggravating reading ... Thankfully, in the third and final section, Kleeman drops A in a weird, lively, and marginally coherent breakneck plot.\
