Read Bottom Up is witty, inventive, and (sometimes wickedly) fun -- an addictive novel readers will devour in one go. —Julie Schumacher, author of Dear Committee Members
Read Bottom Up is an honest look at dating in the iPhone age, and a charming story of the various ways that love finds us. You’ll laugh, and you may even recognize your inbox. —Cecelia Ahern, author of PS I Love You
You will smile and laugh at the romantic follies of Read Bottom Up - until you realize you are not reading this book, it is reading you - at which point you will speed dial your therapist. —Michael H. Weber, screenwriter, (500) Days of Summer, The Spectacular Now, andThe Fault In Our Stars)
An enchanting, witty, and surprisingly realistic romp through romance in the digital age, with the grit of Girls, but the idealism of Sex and the City. —Susan Shapiro, author of Five Men Who Broke My Heart and Speed Shrinking
It would be hard to imagine a more modern, accurate and funny story detailing the vicissitudes of modern love. Actually, it wouldn’t just be hard - it would be impossible. Never has the dysfunction of my generation’s quest for love been so accurately reproduced as fiction. — Allison Williams, actress, GIRLS
(AS SKYE CHATHAM, WITH NEEL SHAH)
A novel, a comedic experiment…
Madeline and Elliot meet at a New York City restaurant opening. Flirtation ensues. A romance, potentially eternal, possibly doomed, begins. Meanwhile, their exchanges are available to be scrutinized and interpreted by two well-intentioned friends who are a mere click away.
Madeline and Elliot's relationship unfolds through a series of wry, confounding, and raw exchanges with each other, and, of course, with their best friends and dubious confidants (Emily and David). The result is a brand-new kind of modern romantic comedy, in format, in content, and especially in creation: the authors wrote the novel by exchanging e-mails between each other and their respective characters in real time, blind to each other's side conversations, seeing only their halves of the book as they wrote.
Thus, in Read Bottom Up, you will not only nod in appreciation and recognition but you'll learn a thing or two about how the other half approaches a new relationship. It just might restore your faith in falling in love, twenty-first-century style. Or not.