ONE’S COMPANY is a brilliant exploration of the relationship between obsession and trauma. The story follows Bonnie, a woman with a tumultuous childhood who is struggling to cope after a traumatic event leaves her completely gutted. Bonnie manages to find comfort in the 1977 sitcom, Three’s Company. She develops a peculiar fixation on the show and its cast—building shrines and watching the DVDs on repeat. Bonnie wins the lottery and buys a large, remote plot of land. She replicates the entire Three’s Company set and cuts off all ties to the outside world. Bonnie spends her years acting out the lives of each character on the show until someone from her past finds her, causing reality to come crashing in.

This book is absolutely bonkers in the best way. Bonnie is a deeply flawed, fascinating narrator who is both cognizant and unwavering. It was such a trip being in her head. I felt every emotion along with her—her spiral into grief and depression, her relief when she was finally free of the heaviness of the world, and her despair when the world she so desperately tried to forget comes back to haunt her. There are certainly some unsettling themes in the story but Hutson provides a balance with laugh-out-loud, deadpan humor that had me in tears. ONE’S COMPANY is a courageous and unapologetic story of grief, trauma, compulsion, friendship, loneliness, and wealth. Hutson is a genius & I can’t recommend this one enough. (Out 6/14.)

Thank you so much @wwnorton for the #gifted copy.

CW: rape, suicide, murder, animal neglect, fire/burns