Hope: 'Intelligent, bighearted, spew-your-gefilte-fish-funny' New York Times

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'Intelligent, bighearted, spew-your-gefilte-fish-funny novels'New York Times

The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and idealistic) suburb west of Boston. Scott Greenspan is a successful cardiologist. His wife, Deb, is a pillar of the community who spends her free time helping resettle refugees. Their daughter, Maya, works at a distinguished New York publishing house and their son, Gideon, is preparing to follow in his father's footsteps. They are an exceptional family from an exceptional place, living in exceptional times.

But when Scott is caught falsifying blood samples at work, he sets in motion a series of scandals that threatens to shatter his family. Deb leaves him for a female power broker; Maya rekindles a hazardous affair from her youth; and Gideon drops out of college to go on a dangerous journey that will put his principles to the test.

Hopefollows the Greenspans over the course of one tumultuous year as they question, and compromise, the values that have shaped their lives. But in the midst of their disillusionment, they'll discover their own capacity for resilience, connection, and, ultimately, hope.

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'His characters make mistakes... soldier on and try not to lose hope. Just as we hold ours that this talented writer will keep gifting us with his intelligent, bighearted, spew-your-gefilte-fish-funny novels'New York Times

'A writer with this much talent can take his readers anywhere'Washington Post

Dark, funny and delightfully unhinged, HOPE is a wild, addictive ride about a fabulously privileged-but-dysfunctional Massachusetts family. The Greenspans appear on the surface to be utterly hope-less but the more awful they turn out to be, the more you root for them. I just loved this book Viv Groskop, author of One Ukrainian Summer

Asly satireof upper-middle class aspirations and what it takes to maintain respectability, ambition, and a familys earned love. . . the Greenspans show us, through theirfumblings, how long-held secrets, Freudian obsessions, and ultimately forgiveness and hope weave the fabric of our family bonds.A hilarious, delightful readAube Rey Lescure, author ofRiver East, River West

Painfully funny. . . This rivals Taffy Brodesser-AknersFleishman is in Troublein its pitch-perfect portrayal of Jewish American lifePublishers Weekly(starred review)

Author Bio

Andrew Ridker's debut novel,The Altruists,was aNew York TimesEditors' Choice, aParis ReviewStaff Pick, and aPeopleBook of the Week. It was translated into more than a dozen languages. He is the editor ofPrivacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poeticsand his writing has appeared inThe New York Times, Esquire, Le Monde,andBookforum,among other publications. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.