Who is Rich?

Matthew Klam was named one of the twenty best fiction writers in America under 40 by The New Yorker. He’s a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Robert Bingham/PEN Award, a Whiting Writer’s Award, and an O Henry Award. His first book, Sam The Cat and Other Stories, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year in the category of first fiction, was selected as a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times, Esquire Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Kansas City Star, and by the Borders for their New Voices series. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Esquire, GQ Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine. He is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire and Hollins College, and has taught creative writing in many places including Johns Hopkins University, St. Albans School, American University, and Stockholm University in Sweden.

‘Regardless of British qualms about the American takeover of the Man Booker prize, Who Is Rich? feels like another strong transatlantic candidate for 2018.’Mark Lawson, Guardian‘Who is Rich? Is a tantalizing novel – acute and smart and stark, but mostly it’s unrelentingly funny about a large number of very inappropriate things. It’s one of those rare books: you open it, then you’re up all night. I was’ Richard Ford‘Matthew Klam writes beautifully about the strange, extraordinary adventure of being human. Who is Rich? is tragic and comic in equal measure, written with a poignancy that makes you laugh and simultaneously wince in recognition. A profoundly memorable novel’ Elizabeth Day‘I loved every page of this book. It got into my bloodstream – and kind of destroyed me’ Curtis Sittenfeld‘What a thrill to experience the fusion of Matthew Klam’s fierce, kinetic prose’ Jennifer Egan‘I seriously, deeply love this book’ Michael Cunningham‘A stunner . . . funny, dark, big, and bold . . . Who Is Rich? Is not to be missed’ Meg Wolitzer‘Political in a way that is not always noted because it is also so funny’ Lorrie Moore‘Immediately engaging … a stylish romp through the inbuilt disappointment of middle age’ Lionel Shriver, Observer‘Buy it and read it in one sitting’ Sunday Times Style‘It’s a portrait of the triumphs and disasters of modern fatherhood, and the pram in the hall. It’s a How We Live Now novel, one of the best to come along in a while’ Esquire'You know those big American novels that you sometimes lose a couple of days to? This is one of those books, conjuring up the humour and narrative of a John Irving or AM Homes… book out a weekend to read it' Stylist‘Comic, wondrous, and sad’ New Yorker‘It’s the funniest novel I’ve read in ages and one of the saddest … will please anyone who likes their protagonists clever and deluded, hopeful and doomed’Joe Dunthorne, Guardian‘Fantastically funny’ Scottish Daily Mail