Fallow

Fallow sits smartly at the axis of corporate markets and motherhood. It joins a literary tradition of women discovering who they are while their bodies evolve in astounding ways. What a joy to be in Natalie’s head—a young woman who hates to work but doesn't shy away from labor. Fallow is a delightfully sharp, dynamic debut

Kiley Reid

Unputdownable... Fallow speaks directly to these mixed-up times. I loved this novel. It sings in so many registers and with so much heart. Sarah Anderson is a major new talent

Julie Buntin

Fallow is a sly marvel of a novel: a witty, vivacious page-turner that doubles as a wry critique of capitalism, corporate culture, and reproductive politics. Sarah Anderson’s debut — a kind of gonzo Handmaid’s Tale—is simply dazzling in its audacity and invention

Peter Ho Davies

Sarah Anderson’s imaginative debut posits a world in which the corporate has almost wholly consumed the human. So disturbingly plausible it can scarcely be considered satire, Fallow is a very funny book about work and ambition, the faltering systems that dictate much of contemporary life, and the possibility of another way forward

Rumaan Alam

Fallow is a spectacular debut: hilarious, sly, sharp, and extraordinarily thoughtful about the knotty philosophical issues that arise where capitalism and the body meet. Sarah Anderson is a dazzling new talent

Lauren Groff

Darkly funny... Anderson sustains an absurd yet disturbingly realistic critique of corporate America. This dystopian tale is as sharp as it is moving

Publishers Weekly

A complete riot. Searingly funny and impossible to put down, Fallow is inventive, astute and terrifyingly believable. Sinking back into Natalie’s world quickly became the best part of my day. A deliciously fun book – the kind you devour, all the while hoping it’ll never end.

Augustine Cerf

Unfolding into an utterly unexpected journey, Anderson’s debut novel is an engrossing commentary on workplace culture, autonomy, and late-stage capitalism. Readers of Caro Claire Burke's Yesteryear (2026) and Aisling Rawle's The Compound (2025) will enjoy the morally gray protagonist and the wry humor in a dystopian-tinged setting

Booklist

Imagine The Handmaid’s Tale, but make it pure capitalism... A cautionary tale about modern selfishness and efficiency, often chilling, that still manages to end hopefully

Kirkus

Fallow is sharp, thought-provoking and a rollicking good time. Anderson tackles the false promises of comfort and commodity with wonderful wit and insight; this is a story that will linger.

Aisling Rawle

I loved Fallow. Funny, intelligent and unputdownable, this is the book that everyone will be talking about

Olivia Colman

Fallow is a fast-paced, unexpectedly personal deconstruction of capitalism. Natalie thrilled, charmed, and angered me; by the end, I didn’t want to let her go

Albertine Clarke

Subversive and surprising … The dystopian inventions in Fallow are only a syllable or less away from our present reality ... In its wonderful, wily final act, Fallow asks what it would mean to truly carry the women around you, and what it might cost to be carried in return

New York Times

[A] smart and sly send-up about the lengths capitalism will go to survey every aspect of our lives.

Marie Claire Best September Books

Darkly comic...[with] matter-of-fact hilarity

Wall Street Journal

This is an incisive, hilarious, and unsettling send-up of corporate culture, capitalism, and greed that plays out like The Handmaid’s Tale meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation. I read Fallow in two breathless days, completely entranced by this young woman’s search for financial freedom in a world that's determined to trap her at every turn

Amazon Best Book of September

A hilariously astute satire on late-stage capitalism’s deprivations and desires

Boston Globe

A humorous send-up of contemporary corporate culture and examination of motherhood .. Anderson has a strong sense of narrative pace with the correct comedic beats to deliver prose that is both readable and entertaining ... The book is not speculative fiction. Everything that does happen could be happening right now

Chicago Review of Books

Think the Handmaid’s Tale meets Severance

Bustle, Best New Books

Fallow is all at once a human story of a struggling, imperfect, funny protagonist just trying to navigate society, and a poignant reflection on what that society asks of us–and what control we have to offer it something different… Engrossing, surprising, and moving

Debutiful

Completely unputdownable

Aria Aber

[An] exuberant, deliciously funny debut… With its wonderfully cynical, disengaged heroine, Fallow takes aim at the corporate world and modern life, and hits the bullseye

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