RIPE

'bold and beautiful'
- bookshop.org 

'Sarah Rose Etter's glorious sucker punch of a second novel... Ripe could feel dauntingly heavy in different hands, but with Etter's artfully deft and empathetic prose, it's something of a dark adventure'
- Shondaland 

'A work of astonishing horror that contains the multitudes of capitalist society and will leave its readers racked with existential dread, unintentionally in keeping with the theme of the summer'
- Big Issue 

'A masterclass in creating tension... There are glimmers of brightness but always short lived. This is the kind of novel that reminds us that the apocalypse is now. Dystopia is here'
- Roxane Gay  

'Holy Shit, this book wrecked me!'
- Samantha Irby  

'Ripe is brilliant - a distinctive, sharp, engrossing window into late-stage capitatlism. My face melted into this book'
- Emily Austin  

'Ripe is a triumph - blade sharpe and unflinching. It walks a darkly gorgeous tightrope between the bitter and beautiful with skill that takes your breath away'
- Sophie Mackintosh  

'Reading this book felt like pressing repeatedly on a bruise; the most pleasureable kind of pain... Sarah Rose Etter is truly one hell of a writer'
- Kristen Arnett  

'Etter continues to push the boundaries of her imagination... and ours'
- Melissa Broder  

'Sarah Rose Etter's Ripe has the most exquisitely described dread I've read in ages. I couldn't put this book down. Totally haunting and propulsive'
- Halle Butler  

'Sarah Rose Etter is a wonder and this novel is a knife to the heart'
- Carmen Maria Machado  

'Freaky and fresh, Ripe is a brilliant creature of a book. It is visceral and alive, pumping with blood and juice. A beautiful tangle of wit and tenderness'
- Ella Baxter, author of New Animal  

'A wrenching story about one woman's struggle with her demanding Silicon Valley career and "black hole" depression in a capitalism-obsessed world'
- Marie Claire (August Book Club Pick) 

'...taking in Etter's explosive, often grotesque prose in one sitting isn't for the faint of heart. In a weird way, reading 'Ripe' feels like being hit over the head with a cast-iron frying pan, then willingly going back for more.'
- Alexis Burling, Datebook 

'With Ripe, Etter reveals the continued potency of surrealism, which breathes life into the vivid expression of our contemporary reality.'
- Brianna Di Monda, The Brooklyn Rail  

'Sarah Rose Etter creates a grim portrait of cutthroat Silicon Valley'
- Jasmine Pirovic, Russh 

'The horrors of capitalism are on full display in Ripe... the black hole that's always been with her, that gets stronger through her depression and anxiety, feels closer than ever'
- Erica Ezeifedi, Book Riot 

'A scathing look at corporate greed and its many dire consequences, this is deeply felt and cathartic'
- Publishers Weekly 

'A lurid, tense, and compelling novel'
- Kirkus 

'a sharp and unsettling look into capitalist modern life'
- Brit & Co 

'This surreal book makes images as real as anything else - Bustle (Most Anticipated Books Of Spring & Summer 2023)'
- Bustle 

'Millennial, anti-capitalist malaise-lit isn't exactly new at this point, but Ripe, while all of those things, manages to skewer workplace politics and the vacuousness of modern existence in a way that makes it feel like a fresh subject...Sarah Rose Etter captures the cruel facts of San Francisco well.'
- Emily Temple , Lithub 

'One of this summer's must-reads... Ripe is both up-to-the-minute timely and daring in its construction. It would fit nicely on a shelf next to the likes of Emily St. John Mandel, Olga Ravn, or Jinwoo Chong's new book, Flux. It belongs on your reading list. There are a slew of new books dropping this summer that will feed dystopic tastes, but few are as thematically fruitful as Ripe'
- The Manual 

'At once grim and playful, Ripe succeeds where other dystopian novels sometimes fail, by emphasizing the personal and particular agony of a single frazzled rat in the capitalist maze'
- Patrick Rapa, The Philadelphia Inquirer 

'A fresh voice, Etter... will undoubtedly cement her place in the literary scene with this one.'
- Zibby Owens , ABC News  

'A blade-sharp examination of ambition, depression and the corporate machine. Devastating and dark'
- NetGalley UK (August Books of the Month)