Very Nice

Praise

“Brisk. . . . Seductive. . . . Very funny. . . . I’m in awe of it.”
—Rumaan Alam, The Washington Post

“Dermansky is one of my favorite writers. I inhaled Very Nice in a matter of hours. It’s a vicious novel, full of terrible people behaving terribly and I could not get enough.”
—Roxane Gay

“A tart lemonade of a summer read. . . . A decidedly modern update to John Cheever’s suburbia.”
—NPR

“A messy, sexy, super fun drama. . . . Impossible to put down.”
—BuzzFeed

 “Very Nice is so sexy and reads so smooth that I was utterly addicted. Trenchantly observed and darkly funny, it will stick with you long after you finish its final, ferocious sentence.”
—Maria Semple, bestselling author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette?

“A mordant satire of wealth and art.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Subtly riotous. . . . Very Nice is a wickedly fun and emotionally potent farce.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine

 “Very Nice features a very spoiled apricot poodle, very yummy breakfasts of avocado toast, and a very naughty mother-daughter-professor love triangle—it’s everything you need in your new favorite summer novel, and makes me very relieved I never got my PhD.”
—Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians

“A juicy summer read with admirable substance.”
—Glamour

 “[An] addictive story of money, sex, and bad house manners.”
—The Guardian

 “Marcy Dermansky is a light switch, a volume knob, a fire drill. Her novels are bright and attention-grabbing, from the first page to the last, and Very Nice is her best yet. This smart, sexy, funny book is a balm for rattled nerves.”
—Emma Straub, bestselling author of Modern Lovers and The Vacationers

“Hilarious. . . . Features a small cast of wickedly funny characters and a plot straight out a Shakespearean romance.”
—Today

“A smart yet wacky summer diversion . . . a book that will make you both laugh and gasp out loud.”
—Newsday

“Very Nice is deceptively polite, a gracious rebuke to every writer who has sworn it’s impossible to write about the times in which we live. Marcy Dermansky found the way in, spotted the connections holding our fragmented world together and made them sing.”
—Laura Lippman, bestselling author of Sunburn

“A sardonic skewering of self-aggrandizing MFA programs, investment banking, and ‘nice’ wealthy suburbs that tend to have seedy secrets bubbling right underneath their shiny veneers.”
—Thrillist

“This is the buzzy, breezy summer read you’ve been craving all summer.”
—Bustle

“Sly, deceptively simple and thoroughly seductive. . . . [Dermansky’s] sharp satire spares none of the characters and teeters brilliantly on the edge of comedy and tragedy.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

 “A hell of a lot of stylish fun. Can you top this? is the question posed by each chapter of this upmarket soap opera, and the answer is always yes.”
—Kirkus Reviews