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'

This is a vicious little novel, smart, efficient, mean, full of terrible people behaving terribly, incisive observations about a certain class of people pretending they had no hand in the state of the world. Writers don't come off too well, either. Absolutely delightful

Roxane Gay, author of 'Bad Feminist' and 'Hunger'

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

Better than very nice, this book is glorious. Fast, funny and filled with memorably brilliant characters

Jane Green, bestselling author of The Friends We Keep

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. Her best book to date, which is saying quite a lot

Laura Lippman, bestselling author of What the Dead Know

Subtly riotous. Dermansky has cultivated a style marked by humoUr so dry it threatens to ignite on the page. A wickedly fun and emotionally potent farce about the often-frustrating fluidity of our relationships to one another and ourselves

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