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“Famous Baby is inventive, hysterical, and touching. Karen Rizzo wraps a timeless drama about the love between mothers and daughters in a fresh, snappy package for the social media age.” —CHRISTINA SCHWARZ, author of The Edge of the Earth and Drowning Ruth, an Oprah’s Book Club Selection
Before there were Real Housewives and Tiger Moms, the was Ruth Sternberg, the hugely popular First Mother of Mommy Blogging—or, as Ruth’s daughter, Abbie prefers to call her, the First Lady of Cyber Exploitation.
Eighteen year-old Abbie has finally found her way out of the limelight, by moving a solid five hundred miles away from Ruth and her “maternal instincts.” But when she hears that her ailing, beloved grandmother is moving in with Ruth, she suspects that her mother has found a new blog subject to exploit. Abbie kidnaps Grandma to save her from the same fate, and thus begins an uproarious battle of wills. Famous Baby wisely and hilariously explores mother love, identity, and the hazards of parental over-sharing in the social media age.
Los Angeles Magazine Now Read This: The Best of L.A.
A Jane's Addiction Pick, W Magazine
South Florida Lifestyle Summer Read
Zoe Report Best Summer Beach Read
HelloGiggles Summer Guide to Truly Spectacular Reading
“Famous Baby is inventive, hysterical, and touching. Karen Rizzo wraps a timeless drama about the love between mothers and daughters in a fresh, snappy package for the social media age.” —CHRISTINA SCHWARZ, author of The Edge of the Earth and Drowning Ruth, an Oprah’s Book Club Selection
Before there were Real Housewives and Tiger Moms, the was Ruth Sternberg, the hugely popular First Mother of Mommy Blogging—or, as Ruth’s daughter, Abbie prefers to call her, the First Lady of Cyber Exploitation.
Eighteen year-old Abbie has finally found her way out of the limelight, by moving a solid five hundred miles away from Ruth and her “maternal instincts.” But when she hears that her ailing, beloved grandmother is moving in with Ruth, she suspects that her mother has found a new blog subject to exploit. Abbie kidnaps Grandma to save her from the same fate, and thus begins an uproarious battle of wills. Famous Baby wisely and hilariously explores mother love, identity, and the hazards of parental over-sharing in the social media age.
Price: $15.00
Pages: 240
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Imprint: Prospect Park Books
Publication Date:
08 July 2014
Trim Size: 8.25 X 5.25 in
ISBN: 9781938849305
Format: Paperback
Los Angeles Times Summer Books Preview selection
Los Angeles Magazine Now Read This: The Best of L.A.
A Jane's Addiction Pick, W Magazine
South Florida Lifestyle Summer Read
Zoe Report Best Summer Beach Read
HelloGiggles Summer Guide to Truly Spectacular Reading
“Will take your summertime escapades to the next level.” —Zoe Report: Rachel Zoe’s Daily Dose of Glamour
“Famous Baby wisely (and funnily) explores motherhood, identity, and the hazards of parental over-sharing in the social media age.” —HelloGiggles
“Believable and well-conceived. . . . Rizzo’s use of mommy blogging as a source of conflict wrests a wry smile of recognition out of the reader.” —PopMatters
“A refreshingly new twist on one of the oldest stories in the book: the mother-daughter love hate relationship. . . . Funny, touching . . . Famous Baby would be a great choice for a book club.” —Bookconscious
“A recommended read for all daughters out there.” —Chickens in the Road
“Rizzo did a great job creating characters who are not what you would expect them to be. . . . This novel will make you think about possible over-sharing digitally, but more than that it will make you think about your relationships and both death and life. Though not a ‘light’ story, with serious issues, complex characters, and emotion, Rizzo’s humor is both needed and enjoyed.” —Book Sp(l)ot Reviews
“This deft first novel [is] a satirical exploration of the modern American family . . . a very pleasing debut.” —Publishers Weekly
“In her funny and touching new novel, Karen Rizzo deftly unpacks the fraught world of mothers and daughters, skewers the vast narcissism of the blogosphere, and reveals the emotional wages of unbridled ambition. An enjoyable and surprising ride to some places I didn’t expect to go.” —SETH GREENLAND, author of The Angry Buddhist
“Hilarious, moving, and wildly original, Famous Baby is a laugh-out-loud funny and poignant look at the modern family in these TMI times.” —WENDY LAWLESS, actress and author of Chanel Bonfire
“Karen Rizzo’s writing is so good I want to read it out loud and pretend it’s me who is so cunning, sublime, and full of light. Famous Baby is a sturdy tale of exceeding relevance that dwells squarely in that nearly impossible landscape of everything so darkly funny and so achingly true.” —MARC PARENT, author of Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk and the Runner’s World “Newbie Chronicles” column
“Famous Baby is inventive, hysterical, and touching. Karen Rizzo wraps a timeless drama about the love between mothers and daughters in a fresh, snappy package for the social media age.” —CHRISTINA SCHWARZ, author of The Edge of the Earth and Drowning Ruth, an Oprah’s Book Club Selection
Los Angeles Magazine Now Read This: The Best of L.A.
A Jane's Addiction Pick, W Magazine
South Florida Lifestyle Summer Read
Zoe Report Best Summer Beach Read
HelloGiggles Summer Guide to Truly Spectacular Reading
“Will take your summertime escapades to the next level.” —Zoe Report: Rachel Zoe’s Daily Dose of Glamour
“Famous Baby wisely (and funnily) explores motherhood, identity, and the hazards of parental over-sharing in the social media age.” —HelloGiggles
“Believable and well-conceived. . . . Rizzo’s use of mommy blogging as a source of conflict wrests a wry smile of recognition out of the reader.” —PopMatters
“A refreshingly new twist on one of the oldest stories in the book: the mother-daughter love hate relationship. . . . Funny, touching . . . Famous Baby would be a great choice for a book club.” —Bookconscious
“A recommended read for all daughters out there.” —Chickens in the Road
“Rizzo did a great job creating characters who are not what you would expect them to be. . . . This novel will make you think about possible over-sharing digitally, but more than that it will make you think about your relationships and both death and life. Though not a ‘light’ story, with serious issues, complex characters, and emotion, Rizzo’s humor is both needed and enjoyed.” —Book Sp(l)ot Reviews
“This deft first novel [is] a satirical exploration of the modern American family . . . a very pleasing debut.” —Publishers Weekly
“In her funny and touching new novel, Karen Rizzo deftly unpacks the fraught world of mothers and daughters, skewers the vast narcissism of the blogosphere, and reveals the emotional wages of unbridled ambition. An enjoyable and surprising ride to some places I didn’t expect to go.” —SETH GREENLAND, author of The Angry Buddhist
“Hilarious, moving, and wildly original, Famous Baby is a laugh-out-loud funny and poignant look at the modern family in these TMI times.” —WENDY LAWLESS, actress and author of Chanel Bonfire
“Karen Rizzo’s writing is so good I want to read it out loud and pretend it’s me who is so cunning, sublime, and full of light. Famous Baby is a sturdy tale of exceeding relevance that dwells squarely in that nearly impossible landscape of everything so darkly funny and so achingly true.” —MARC PARENT, author of Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk and the Runner’s World “Newbie Chronicles” column
“Famous Baby is inventive, hysterical, and touching. Karen Rizzo wraps a timeless drama about the love between mothers and daughters in a fresh, snappy package for the social media age.” —CHRISTINA SCHWARZ, author of The Edge of the Earth and Drowning Ruth, an Oprah’s Book Club Selection
Karen Rizzo, who lives with her actor husband and two children in Los Angeles, California, is the author of the Book Sense/IndieBound selection Things to Bring, S#!T to Do, a memoir built around her penchant for lists. The recipient of a MAGGIE Award for Best Essay in a West Coast Consumer Magazine, her stories and essays have appeared on NPR and in the Los Angeles Times, Living Fit, Salon, Beatrice, Fresh Yarn, and VIVmag as well as the anthology Life’s A Stitch: The Best of Contemporary Women’s Humor. Her plays and performance pieces have been seen at ARCADE (Los Angeles), Playwrights Horizons Theatre School and Samuel Beckett Theatre (New York), and Ensemble Studio Theatre (New York and Los Angeles), where she is a longtime member. Famous Baby is her first novel.