AMY CHOZICK
Author and Journalist
Biting, unsettling and darkly hilarious, With Friends Like You is a psychological thriller that keeps you guessing until the end. Loaded to the gills with satire and packed with wonderful lines and observations, Amy Chozick's razor-sharp debut both celebrates and skewers modern motherhood... and the beautiful lifes we tell ourselves to survive it."
- best-selling author Maria Semple
"With Friends Like You is a funny and razor sharp meditation on motherhood - not to mention the type of psychological thriller that keeps you guessing until the last page. What a stunning debut!"
- Laura Dave
From New York Times best selling author Amy Chozick comes a gripping debut that defies all expectations—a story of feverish obsession, new motherhood, and a friendship pushed to the edge.
Emily is unmoored as a new mother in Manhattan—exhausted, broke, and slipping away from her well-meaning husband. She becomes fixated on finding the one person who ever truly understood her: her college roommate, Daisy, who vanished years ago after dancing at a seedy strip club off campus.
In her desperate search for Daisy, Emily tumbles from new-mom message boards into a world of porn, secrets, and a high-end escort service for global billionaires, hitting one dead end after another—until the unthinkable happens: Daisy suddenly reappears.
Daisy infuses Emily’s life with newfound purpose and community as the two launch a new mothers’ group in a vacant luxury skyscraper (matcha on tap, vibrators on offer). But the joy of their reunion soon fades, revealing deep cracks in their friendship. Is Daisy the key to Emily’s happiness — or is she unraveling her world? And where has Daisy really been all these years?
"Knife-sharp, slick, and
surprising, With Friends Like You is a knockout debut. This frenetic psychological thriller is weird, funny, and so bingeable-with an ending that left my jaw on the floor."
- Andrea Bartz
New York Times bestselling author of The Last Ferry Out and We Were Never Here