November 17, 2026
“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 self fully dredged in the self, a girl under “the paternal spell,” a lover in love who throws herself headlong into jealousy’s abyss and lives to tell the tale.”
Sarah Manguso, author of Liars
“An intellectual, visceral, and uncomfortable telling that is nearly impossible to stop reading.” —Sara Verstynen, Booklist
“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 or Trauma Plot
*A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book 2026*
*The Millions Most Anticipated Book 2026*
*An Alta Most Anticipated Book 2026*
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.
