Press Reviews

• Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins

  Truth-teller Emily Gould hurls her heart and mind into this hilarious, bittersweet tale

• Chad Harbach, author of The Art of Fielding

  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

• Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask

  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 world, and her wonderful particularity makes familiar things new again

• Jonathan Franzen, praise for And the Heart Says Whatever

  And the Heart Says Whatever comes by its anger and melancholy honestly, and it makes sense of much that is puzzling about our cultural moment

• Viv Groskop

  Red

  Funny and illuminating . . . A clever, sharp novel about proper growing up

• Observer

  A sharp study of female friendship, that treacherous terrain where envy and deep fondness often go hand in hand

• Daily Mail

  Provides . . . enlightening insights into what it is to be female and coming of age in twenty-first-century New York, but there's the warm glow of real friendship too

• Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Prep and Sisterland

  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

• Glamour

  A dazzling debut