Hope

'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

‘The shattering of the Greenspans’ carefully curated success is tragicomic, piercingly satirical and perceptive about the American dream. Yes, the shadow of Jonathan Franzen is always present, but Ridker finds in any flaw an opportunity for renewal, and there’s something, well, hopeful in that’ Ben East, Observer

‘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

'Ridker has a deft way with a zinging one-liner' Daily Mail

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

‘A sly satire of upper-middle class aspirations and what it takes to maintain respectability, ambition, and a family’s earned love. . . the Greenspans show us, through their fumblings, how long-held secrets, Freudian obsessions, and ultimately forgiveness and hope weave the fabric of our family bonds. A hilarious, delightful read’ Aube Rey Lescure, author of River East, River West 

'Eminently readable, masterfully satirising the non-problems of the affluent and over-educated... funny, riotously so at times, and Ridker has a particular talent for zooming in on tiny biographical details that bring a minor character to life, so that every anecdote captivates' Jewish Chronicle

‘Painfully funny. . . This rivals Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Fleishman is in Trouble in its pitch-perfect portrayal of Jewish American life’ Publishers Weekly (starred review)