November 17, 2026
A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year & A Great Nonfiction Book of November
A The Millions Most Anticipated Fall Book
“A candid, sharply observed confession. … indulged rather than earned.”— Kirkus
“An intellectual, visceral, and uncomfortable telling that is nearly impossible to stop reading.” — Sara Verstynen, Booklist
“[A]mbitious… Haas deploys her formidable intelligence to illuminate her emotional descent: Anne Carson’s translations of Sappho, Anna Atkins’s cyanotypes, and a catalog of artists who died by drowning are pressed into service as Haas traces jealousy’s lineage through myth, art history, and social media. … oddly affectless.” — Publishers Weekly
“Sounds both gripping and deeply uncomfortable—immediately sold.” —Jessie Gaynor, Literary Hub
“As memoirs increasingly function as PR campaigns for the self, it’s amazing how unflinchingly Haas is able to look at the inner workings of herself.” Literary Hub
“Swiping and lurking, how easily we succumb to social media’s peril of finding out too much about our lovers—and about ourselves. In this epic examination, Sarah Haas is a lover in love who throws herself headlong into jealousy’s abyss and lives to tell the tale.” —Sarah Manguso, author of Liars
“A merciless and disorienting descent into the hell of erotic obsession in the digital age. Like Annie Ernaux in Simple Passion or The Possession, Haas understands that the purifications of love are brutal as often as they are beautiful. Rare is the memoir that looks so daringly at its own ugliness. For every woman who has been destroyed by desire and miraculously resurrected, Jealousy is incendiary.” —Jamie Hood, author of Trauma Plot
“I don’t think enough of us admit how deeply we experience jealousy. It feels almost inevitable in the time of social media, where we are trained to compare our lives to the curated, farcical lives of others. In JEALOUSY, Sarah Haas bares all, detailing the frenzy she falls into during a relationship when she discovers a former partner in an old Instagram post. What follows is a brutal spiral of obsession and desire—one that showcases how jealousy is an inescapable feature of our search for love and who we are at the end of the day. Haas delivers a gorgeously written memoir that is wholly felt.” —Quinn Illgen, Changing Hands (Tempe, AZ)
An obsessive, propulsive memoir tracing jealousy’s arc through a relationship and investigating our darkest emotional impulses throughout the history of art, myth, photographic technology, and perception.
At the heart of this memoir is a fascinating provocation: What if the only way to understand ourselves is to embrace jealousy? To admit it as a part of the self—even if the worst, most despotic part—and then to honestly describe and so face it.
