Vacuum in the DarkVacuum in the Dark by Jen Beagin was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. From the Whiting Award winning author of Pretend Im Dead comes a new hilarious, edgy, and brilliant one of a kind novel, perfect for fans of Sally Rooney and Joshua Ferris. Mona is twenty six, working as a cleaner and looking for a fresh start in Taos, New Mexico. She moved there mainly to escape from a bad break up with a junkie named Mr.