FRIENDSHIP has received a starred Kirkus review and amazing advance quotes (from Chad Harbach, Jami Attenberg and Tao Lin, among others) which you’ll see below, including a brand-new blurb from Sam Lipsyte.

Further to all the advance quotes and blurbs I am also happy to announce three pieces of high-profile national magazine news: Elle will run a feature profile of Emily Gould to tie in with the book’s trade release this summer, and she will be writing a piece for Cosmopolitan. And in even bigger news, we were just informed that The New York Times Magazine is going to feature Emily in their weekly "Big Profile" column (see a recent one here) timed to the publication of Friendship.

FRIENDSHIP has also been included on several most-anticipated-of-2014 lists, including The Millions and Publishers Lunch (you have to be logged in to read the latter). The book also makes appearances on three new Best of Summer lists: Glamour; New York Post; New York Magazine’s 101 Must-do’s for Summer.

In addition to the buzz that is building surrounding FRIENDSHIP’s release this summer, Emily Gould has also been in the public eye for an insightful and moving piece she wrote for the n+1 book MFA vs. NYC, recently published. You can read Emily’s piece (which was also mentioned in the New York Times a few weeks ago) here.
 

“[…] Plot takes a back seat to Gould’s razor-sharp humor and observations about life in New York among a class of young people who know more about how they’d like to live than how to pay for it. It’s also a delight to read a novel that places female friendship at its center; we watch Bev and Amy manage their fluctuating feelings of love, jealousy and sometimes disdain for each other. […] Gould brilliantly charts their ups and downs. Perfect summer reading for people who’d rather stay in the city than go to the beach.”
—Starred Kirkus Review

“A savvy first novel that, in piercing prose, zeroes in on modern ennui and the catalysts that force even the most apathetic out of their complacency.”
—Booklist

"Friendship’s characters are brave, smart, wounded, stupid, petty and wise, like most of the people I know and love. Gould’s humor and honesty gets us good and close to this story, this world, and her wonderful particularity makes familiar things new again."
—Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask

“I read Friendship with great pleasure. Emily Gould recreates with wit and insight the New York I know: a place full of fame and money that's not yours, where friends become family and lovers become ex-lovers, and the big questions about your life stay unanswered, and unanswerable, for a long time.”
— Chad Harbach, author of The Art of Fielding

“Truth-teller Emily Gould hurls her heart and mind into this hilarious, bittersweet tale of the urgent, everyday need for connection between women.”
—Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins

“Friendship is a moving, focused, highly readable, very funny novel-told with a calming amount of perspective by a trustworthy, precise voice-that is intimate and insightful, regarding two decades of life (early 20s to middle age), on the topics of endurance (emotional, financial), relationships (work, platonic, romantic-human), and jobs (temp, internet, freelance art) in New York City.”
—Tao Lin, author of Taipei

“Friendship is especially honest about professional insecurity and personal uncertainty, which makes it an especially funny novel. And Emily Gould’s prose sounds so admirably up-to-the-minute because it so faithfully observes classical principles of transparency and directness.”
—Benjamin Kunkel, author of Indecision

“[Emily Gould is] massively talented, just as good at devastating us with an emotional truth as she is at amusing us with a clever joke.”
—Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Prep and American Wife, on AND THE HEART SAYS WHATEVER

Bev Tunney is stuck in circumstances that would have barely passed for New York bohemian in her mid-twenties: temping, living in a shared house, drowning in debt. Her best friend Amy Schein is a charismatic and fiercely impetuous Brooklyn media darling still riding the tailwinds of early success, but reality is catching up with her – her job, her lease and her relationship are on the brink of collapse. And then Bev falls unexpectedly pregnant.

As Amy and Bev are dragged into their thirties and genuine adulthood, they are forced to contemplate the possibility that growing up might mean growing apart. They want to help each other but can’t help themselves; want to make good decisions, but fall prey to their worst impulses; find their generosity overwhelmed by petty concerns. An unsettling encounter with an accomplished older woman, Sally, throws their problems into sharp relief. Emily Gould’s dazzling debut novel traces the evolution of a friendship with wry sympathy, refreshing honesty and humour.

Emily Gould is the author of And The Heart Says Whatever (Free Press, 2010) and the co-owner, with Ruth Curry, of an independent ebookstore, Emily Books, which picks one book a month to send to subscribers. Publications she has written for include The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, MIT's Technology Review, The Poetry Foundation, The London Review of Books, n+1, The Guardian, The Economist, Slate and Jezebel. She has blogged since 2005 at emilymagazine.com. Her New York Times Magazine cover article "Exposed," which detailed her experience as a professional blogger, is being developed into a TV series by producer Lynda Obst (Sony).
 

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