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“Ingratitude” as a book category centers on the tensions, betrayals, and moral ambiguities that arise when appreciation is withheld, coerced, or strategically performed. Spanning fiction, memoir, and essays, these works probe unequal exchanges—between parents and children, mentors and protégés, benefactors and dependents, lovers and friends—where gifts, care, or sacrifice create debts that are resisted or denied. Common threads include entitlement, resentment, social obligation, and the politics of reciprocity: Who owes what to whom, and who gets to decide? Tones range from tragic to satirical, with arcs of comeuppance, estrangement, reckoning, or uneasy reconciliation. By examining the fragile contracts that bind people and communities, “Ingratitude” reveals the costs of gratitude as a social currency and the fallout when it fails to be returned.

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