Emma's Table

“Sophisticated, witty, and fun, Emma’s Table had me hooked from the first page, and smiling through the very last. Philip Galanes serves up a pitch-perfect comedy of manners with a deft and elegant touch.” - Holly Peterson, author of The Manny

“Emma’s Table is a charming urban fairy tale about characters who actually learn from their mistakes. Philip Galanes has written a sweet, sly comedy of manners with an oddly familiar and slightly notorious figure at its center.” - Tom Perrotta, author of The Abstinence Teacher and Little Children

“This summer’s delicious read.” - Vogue

“Emma’s Table is a marvel: a whip-smart juggling act, as light as meringue, with a perfectly tender heart.” - Ayelet Waldman, author of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

“[Galanes has a] gift for telling detail, rueful but compassionate insight and effortless imagery.” - Kirkus Reviews

“In other hands, a novel about a fictionalized Martha Stewart would be an occasion for a hatchet job. But Mr. Galanes...has created a heroine not only capable of but also deserving of kindness” - New York Sun

“Buoyant. . . . In other hands, a novel about a fictionalized Martha Stewart would be an occasion for a hatchet job. But Mr. Galanes, in this unlikely act of empathetic imagining, has created a heroine not only capable of but also deserving of kindness.” - New York Sun

“This summer’s delicious read.” - Vogue

“Delicious…. [A] touchingly bittersweet comedy of modern urban existence…. Anyone who can build nail-biting suspense out of a Sunday dinner gone horribly wrong is deserving of praise.” - Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today