Three Rooms by Jo Hamya

Against the backdrop of Brexit, the narrator of this thought-provoking novel struggles to find a job and a place of her own. Hamya captures the rootlessness of the millennial generation — carving a space for themselves out of hollowed structures as they navigate the gig economy and the dumpster fire of capitalism. “There had been no place I could have dragged a sofa into, painted the walls whatever color I wanted, stayed in long enough to find inviting colleagues over for dinner and drinks, a worthwhile task,” the narrator says. It’s enough to make you scream: The “kids” are not okay.