With Friends Like You

A Novel

By: Amy Chozick

From a New York Times bestselling author comes a gripping debut that defies all expectations—a story of feverish obsession, new motherhood, and a friendship pushed to the edge

Emily is unmoored as a new mother in Manhattan—exhausted, broke, and slipping away from her well-meaning husband. She becomes fixated on finding the one person who ever truly understood her: her college roommate Daisy who vanished years ago after dancing at a seedy strip club off campus.

In her desperate search for Daisy, Emily tumbles from new-mom message boards into a world of porn, secrets, and a high-end escort service for global billionaires, hitting one dead end after another—until the unthinkable happens: Daisy suddenly reappears.

Daisy infuses Emily’s life with newfound purpose and community as the two launch a new mothers’ group in a vacant luxury skyscraper (matcha on tap, vibrators on offer). But the joy of their reunion soon fades, revealing deep cracks in their friendship. Is Daisy the key to Emily’s happiness—or is she unraveling her world? And where has Daisy really been all these years?

Critic reviews

Praise for With Friends Like You:
“Biting, unsettling, and darkly hilarious, With Friends Like You is a psychological thriller that keeps you guessing until the end. Loaded to the gills with satire and packed with wonderful lines and observations, Amy Chozick’s razor-sharp debut both celebrates and skewers modern motherhood... and the beautiful lies we tell ourselves to survive it.”
—Maria Semple

“A pitch-perfect debut that will stick with you long after the last page. This book slapped me right in the face and I loved every second of it. In delicious, hilarious, and highly relatable prose Chozick perfectly sums up what mothers in America are finally starting to realize—no one is coming to save us. We're going to have to save ourselves.”
—Jo Piazza, bestselling author of Everyone is Lying to You and The Sicilian Inheritance

“With Friends Like You is a funny and razor sharp meditation on motherhood - not to mention the type of psychological thriller that keeps you guessing until the last page. What a stunning debut!"
—Laura Dave

"Knife-sharp, slick, and surprising, WITH FRIENDS LIKE YOU is a knockout debut. This frenetic psychological thriller is weird, funny, and so bingeable—with an ending that left my jaw on the floor."
–Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Ferry Out and We Were Never Here

“I lost myself in Amy Chozick's dizzying and absorbing novel in the very best way. What starts as a hilarious and scathing treatise on new motherhood unfolds into something genuinely shocking and thought-provoking. The answer to what happened to Daisy is sure to leave readers stunned.”
—Jessica Knoll