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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Emma Rosenblum's Bad Summer People is a whip-smart, propulsive debut about infidelity, backstabbing, and murderous intrigue, set against an exclusive summer haven on Fire Island.
"This roiling beach community satire serves up wicked, clever fun that is White Lotus sharp." --Kevin Kwan, New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians and Sex and Vanity
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF SUMMER 2023: Bustle, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, PopSugar, Bloomberg, Vogue, and more!
"Delicious...[An] addictive thriller of manners...[Rosenblum is] a keen observer of small, telling details." --New York Times
"A novel of family and romantic foibles, with a murder mystery thrown in to boot--juicy in more ways than one." --Vogue.com "A smart, slyly observed take on power and privilege." --Town & Country "Come for the twisted murder mystery and stay for the guaranteed drama amongst the group." --ELLE "The Real Housewives has nothing on all these families' personal drama." --Cosmopolitan "A beach-book blockbuster....[Rosenblum's] debut novel has it all: wealth, gossip, unhappy husbands and even unhappier wives, infidelity, still more gossip--and murder...Expect to see it on beach towels up and down the Eastern Seaboard." --Bloomberg "[A] seductive summer debut." --PopSugar "[A] scintillating debut... Wickedly entertaining." --Publishers Weekly