From the Publisher
Praise for Sugar Street
"An energetic character study of a white man determined to escape from his life...Dee’s work grapples intriguingly with the narrator’s liberal myopia. It stands as a showcase of Dee’s masterly prose." — Publishers Weekly
“An unsettling, propulsive, sometimes acidly funny book.” — Kirkus Reviews
Praise for The Locals
“A bold, vital, and view-expanding novel.”—George Saunders
“Amid the heat of today’s vicious political climate, The Locals is a smoke alarm. Listen up.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“Captivating.”—USA Today
“Addictive reading.”—The Wall Street Journal
“No one gets off the moral hook in this propulsive, brilliantly observed study.”—People (Book of the Week)
“A steady, intelligent probing of family ties and sibling rivalry and themes that illuminate how we live now.”—Newsday
“In this moving study of how the housing bubble’s burst sets a small town’s citizens against each other, Jonathan Dee tells a must-read story for our age. Class struggle, tyranny, America’s disillusionment after 9/11—The Locals creates a delicately drawn world impossible to forget.”—Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author of The Liar’s Club
“There could not be a more timely novel than The Locals. It examines the American self and American selfishness from 9/11 until today. Jonathan Dee has given us a master class in empathy and compassion, a vital book.”—Nathan Hill, author of The Nix
“Blackly comic, effortlessly authoritative, The Locals is almost criminal in its perceptiveness about the screwed state of the American union. Jonathan Dee is a modern American master.”—Joseph O’Neill, author of Netherland and The Dog
Praise for The Privileges
“Jonathan Dee is a modern American Master.” — Joseph O’Neill
“Transfixing…composed in Dee’s typically elegant style—gorgeous winding sentences.” — Los Angeles Times
“Full of elegance, vitality and complexity.” — The New York Times Book Review
“Scintillating.” — The Washington Post
“Admirably relentless.” — The New Yorker
“A deliciously sophisticated engine of literary darkness.” — Jonathan Franzen
“Pitch perfect prose.” — Chicago Tribune
"Dee moves from scene to scene like a cinematographer, capturing the essence of a character in a telling glimpse."—Financial Times
"Dee’s luminous prose never falters; he’s a master."—Entertainment Weekly
"A deliciously sophisticated engine of literary darkness."—The Guardian
"The novel goes down like a perfectly chilled glass of champagne—crisp, sparkling and delicious."—Bookforum
"The Privileges is verbally brilliant, intellectually astute, and intricately knowing. It is also very funny and a great, great pleasure to read. Jonathan Dee is a wonderful writer."—Richard Ford
"Here is an incredibly readable, intelligent, incisive portrait of a particular kind of American family. Jonathan Dee takes us inside the world of what desire for wealth can do, and cannot do, for the self, the soul, and the family. The Privileges is told with admirable conciseness and yet with great breadth, and the reader is swept along, watching the complications of such desire unfold."—Elizabeth Strout
“Jonathan Dee is at once an acerbic social critic, an elegant stylist, and a shrewd observer of the human comedy."—Tom Perrotta
"The Privileges is a pitch-perfect evocation of a particular stratum of New York society as well as a moving meditation on family and romantic love." —Jay McInerney