“Oh, how I loved this book! WORD SALAD is Susan Coll at her best—sharp, funny, and packed full of delightfully off-beat characters (including one truly disastrous dog). But beneath this witty comedy of manners is a moving, thoughtful exploration of the complicated nature of grief and the power that books have to help us find ourselves when we’re lost. Reading a novel by Coll is like spending the afternoon with your warmest, wisest, funniest friend.”

“A wonderfully precise and absurd comedy. Susan Coll grounds her humor in the perfect seriousness with which her characters respond to the impossible chaos of their surroundings. Matilda is careful and observant and such a pleasure to spend time with, even as events around her spiral out of control and into a mass of petty revenges, doomed plots, unexpected romances and badly behaved dogs.”

“Just when you think AI is taking over the world, along comes Susan Coll's charming, compelling WORD SALAD to remind us that impossible feelings, imperfect people, and unpredictable events are the essential ingredients of a full human life.”

“This delightful, Dawn-Powell-like screwball comedy was exactly what I needed.”

“Susan Coll has written a hilarious, raucous, mad-cap comedy full of intrigue and insight. The Literati is a delightful satire of too many of my favorite things: the literary world, non-profits, fundraising and of course celebrity. But through it all, Coll has infused the book with a warm, earnest pulsing heart that refuses cynicism in our protagonist Clemi: someone no reader whose ever started a new and strange job will not relate to and root for. Smart, funny and deliriously charming!”

“I have learned to relish every minute I spend in Susan Coll’s comic universes, and The Literati is no exception. Featuring a glittering array of characters—from cats to clowns, from divas to embezzlers to Malcolm Gladwell lookalikes—this satire of nonprofit dysfunction is up to the minute, intricately plotted and wickedly funny. Above all, it’s delicious.”

“With a poet’s flair for language, a comedian’s knack for timing, and a satirist’s gift for skewering the absurd, Susan Coll sends the reader on a riotous adventure with heroine Clemi, who faces numerous crises over the course of a week—including the sudden disappearance of her boss and the equally sudden appearance of the FBI. The Literati is a wickedly smart and funny gem of a novel that I devoured in one sitting. Don’t miss it!”