The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson (Paperback)

The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson is a prizewinning, semi-autobiographical novel set at Oxford University in the 1950s. During a tea party, student Josephine sees her classmates transform into armadillos and is overtaken by uncontrollable laughter, and her college sends her away. The novel follows her struggle with mental illness after her mother's death. A sharp, unsettling Scribner paperback for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney.