Good Company

“Searing exploration of gender and sex.” — Forbes

“Caustic.” — New York Magazine, Highbrow Brilliant

“Kate Christensen’s disarmingly frank and utterly engaging eleventh novel, Good Company, skewers misogyny and ageism in and out of the book industry. . . . In this novel that performs the work of a memoir while also offering its critique, Christensen concentrates her gimlet eye on bad men, the women who enable them, and an industry all too eager to gobble up and discard young women.” — Boston Globe

“Christensen executes a ninja takedown of toxic literary hypocrisy and an evisceration of the endless damage wrought by misogyny and sexual predation and violence.” ⎯ Booklist

“Christensen’s adeptness at character development and psychological analysis shines . . . . An astute addition to a decade of discussions about consent and predation.” ⎯ Kirkus Reviews

“Nuanced . . . . Julia’s complex characterization will stay with readers.” ⎯ Publishers Weekly

“Kate Christensen eloquently deconstructs female desire and ambition and the ways in which those twin drives can be manipulated by men and women alike. The result is a novel that is emotionally raw, bracingly honest, and filled with compassion.” ⎯ Marisa Silver, author of At Last

“This is a memoir disguised as a novel, starring a protagonist who has written a memoir—a super-sharp postmodern experiment in memory and narrative subjectivity. It is Kate Christensen’s best novel yet, a wonder and a triumph!” ⎯ Jessica Anthony, author of The Most

“In this uproarious, disturbing, compelling, masterful novel of (shitty) manners, we’re rooting for Julia as she comes awake, takes charge, takes prisoners. And boys, hell hath no fury! At last, good company has a price.” ⎯ Bill Roorbach, author of Lucky Turtle, Life Among Giants, and Beep