Tradwife scams, pickleball craze, pimping kids for social media content . . .
PRAISE FOR GRIFTOPIA
“Griftopia is both a brilliant and zany send-up of American culture in an age of instant celebrity and perpetual deceit and a wrenching parable about the inevitable betrayals that family members inflict on one another. In the Freischin clan, Suzy Vitello has created a band of survivors whose dysfunction and scheming is matched by their tender yearnings. This is a novel with the umph to make you snort with laughter and sob in anguish. Dig in.”
–Steve Almond, author of All the Secrets of the World and Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow
“Griftopia has everything I crave in a novel–a wry gaze, prose that crackles, and a messy multi-generational family full of flawed, sardonic, delightfully-scrappy characters who are fumbling through their bittersweet versions of the disintegrating American dream (and taking us along for the delicious ride).”
–Kim Culbertson, author of Other People’s Kids
“Suzy Vitello’s Griftopia (Sibylline Press) pulses with family drama, humor and the survival machinations we’ve come to expect during the current political era. Today’s newspaper headlines are mirrored through the lives of two sisters visited by an early tragedy that leads to them to live separately until they reunite out of necessity during their middle years. As mature women, the ensuing clash of values and emotional residue from their separate lives collide in hijinks that effectively manipulate and highjack the lives of their offspring. A master storyteller, Vitello succeeds in transporting her reader from news headlines into this page-turning novel that will leave readers laughing and shaking their heads at the same time.”
– Dian Greenwood, author of The Carleton Sisters
“In her newest novel Griftopia, Suzy Vitello dials into the nexus of the current cultural moment, when prices are high, optimism is low, and hope feels far beyond the horizon. Desperation drives her multigenerational cast of quirky characters as they scheme to find stability—and even happiness—in a world gone mad. A brilliant, engaging, and fast-moving read.”
— Nancy Townsley, author of Sunshine Girl
“Griftopia by Suzy Vitello is a treat of a book. Fast moving, laugh out loud funny, quirky characters who aren’t ALL bad, except maybe for one or two, but who are all too human. Vitello shines a harsh light onto the social media madness consuming us all, but somehow still manages to leave us–this reader anyway–hopeful and optimistic. A triumph by a writer on top of her game.”
–Simi Monheit, author of The Goldie Standard