susan coll
Bookish People Upcoming Release - August 2, 2022
As much fun as Coll has with vacuum cleaners—a truly surprising amount—it's literary humor where she slays. - Kirkus Reviews
Queen of literary comedy - Newsday
Coll’s novel is a lot more serious than its cover communicates; it explores thorny issues such as the rise of neo-Nazism, career burnout, and the question of separating art from artist. Fans of novels with plenty of literary and political references or of relationship fiction will enjoy. - Library Journal
Susan Coll’s Bookish People is a delightful, hilarious, and utterly charming novel about a quirky bookstore and its motley crew—ridiculously lovable people who think way too much about words, writing, dead authors, customers’ dogs, cats who torment birds, canceled author events, British ovens, readers, vacuum cleaners, and Russian tortoises. The perfect read for bookish people everywhere! - Angie Kim , internationally bestselling author of Miracle Creek
A smart, original, laugh-out-loud novel that fans of Tom Perrotta will adore. If you sell, buy, or simply love books, Bookish People is for you. I wholeheartedly recommend this quirky gem. - Sarah Pekkanen , New York Times bestselling co-author of The Golden Couple
There’s not a wittier, zanier, smarter book about books and the people who love them than Bookish People. After reading about this single screwball week in the book biz, you’ll want to hug your closest bookseller (and maybe apply for a job). - Leslie Pietrzyk , author of Admit This to No One
Take a bookstore owner who is sick of books, a pompous poet who has managed to get himself canceled, and a crew of overqualified millennial employees, then add a week of political upheaval and a rare celestial event. The result is Bookish People, a sharp yet tender comedy of bookstore manners. Susan Coll has written a love letter to bibliophiles everywhere with too many hilarious parts to list—though the tortoise named Kurt Vonnegut Jr. may be my all-time favorite literary pet. - Lisa Zeidner , author of Love Bomb
The Stager
The Stager is great fun, and Coll proves herself as shrewd a social anthropologist as she is a buoyant writer. - The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice
Even brilliant social satires can be limited, but Susan Coll is so slyly perceptive, so attentive to nuanced relationships between people that she gets at how we conform life to the stories we tell ourselves. - The Chicago Tribune, Editor's Choice
Susan Coll writes about her home town with an insider’s hilarious, mocking affection...Throughout this antic tale, Coll shows us what happens to people when they don’t feel heard or seen, when they wind up walking around as human versions of a house that’s been carefully denuded of the things that made it warm and welcoming — that made it a home. - Julie Klam, Washington Post
Coll tips her hand that we're reading not a plain parody of suburban dysfunction but the work of a very good comic novelist subverting conventional structure and perspective…chuck your attachment to reality and cheerfully follow Coll down the rabbit hole. - Washingtonian
Coll’s vicious depiction of upper-upper-middle-class suburbia is often excruciatingly funny. - Kirkus
Overgrown houses, failed planned communities, and a consumerist culture contrast with the stager’s efforts to declutter and sterilize in this offbeat social satire. Coll takes on marriage, friendship, and fidelity to dark-comic effect. - Booklist
