Presley has been grinding away as an assistant at the Late Night Show for nearly two years, while finding a home for herself in New York City. While avoiding forming any sort of meaningful romantic connections, she leans on her friend and roommate Isabelle to keep her social life active. When Presley runs into one of her late mother’s friends, their connection has her facing past grievances and has this mid-twenty-something opening herself for all to see.

Huge thanks to Celadon Books for sending me an ARC of this one - out July 9, 2024!

After absolutely loving Cat Shook’s debut novel IF WE’RE BEING HONEST, I was beyond thrilled to not only hear about her next book, but to find out that it would be set where I currently call home - New York!

HUMOR ME is a love letter to the city and its boroughs 🫶but it’s also heavily focused on the importance of friendship and dealing with grief.

It made me laugh and cry -  Shook is great at writing imperfect characters that are so multi-faceted it hurts 🥲and she had sooo many references to some of my fave things (Tom Hanks, Nora Ephron films, Lorde, Broad City, The Office, etc etc!!)

I can’t wait for this one to get in the hands of more readers!

tw: alcoholism, death of a parent, finance bros