Break in Case of Emergency: A novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Hilarious. The personal and workplace plots are woven together beautifully. Read, cringe, laugh, relate.”

  — Lenny

• “Enthralling, sharply observed”

  — Marie Claire

• A funny and moving commentary on that point in a woman's life when everything seems to come into question.

  — Camille Perri, The New York Times

• It's the superb insights and penetrating writing that make this book remarkable... An extraordinary debut.

  — The Guardian

• Enthralling, sharply observed

  — Marie Claire

• Hilarious... The personal and workplace plots are woven together beautifully. Read, cringe, laugh, relate.

  — Lenny

• In this cutting commentary on workplace toxicity and how its tendrils can strangle relationships, Winter uses humor to illuminate the state of modern work, family, and friendship.

  — Elle.com

• Winter’s sharp perceptions and fluent prose are so much fun to experience…Achingly real.

  — Bookforum

• Might just be the go-to read of the summer.

  — Brit + Co.

• Curious, captivating.

  — Kirkus Reviews

• Entertaining and smartly satirical...This is both a biting lampoon of workplace politics and a heartfelt search for meaning in modern life.

  — Publishers Weekly

• Break in Case of Emergency is a high-quality tribute to ordinary experience, which makes it an extraordinary debut.

  — The Guardian

• Brilliant...wry and unerringly sharp.

  — Refinery29

• A complex and intelligent examination of women’s lives, privilege and power, and friendship. Winter explores what it means to have a voice, and how and when to use it.

  — Natalie Bakopoulos, The San Francisco Chronicle

• If you need a New York map of our times, have Jessica Winter become your cartographer.  Sassy, sarcastic and sleek, this is a wonderfully brash appraisal of how we live.

  — Colum McCann, National Book Award–winning author of Let the Great World Spin 

• Jessica Winter has given us not just one of the funniest books of the year, but an entire glorious comic universe that’s as addictive as it is immersive.  Not a page goes by without a half dozen delights.  Half dozen to a dozen.  Sometimes more.

  — Ed Park, author of Personal Days “Break in Case of Emergency is compelling, funny, sad, moving, and ultimately uplifting. Winter is one of the best satirists of the workplace I've read in years; she has a deadly ear for the belief-defying hypocrisies of the office and the art world. But she's also a tender portraitist of the bonds of love, family, and friendship, and of the thousand little (and not so little) ways a person can defeat herself in the search for happiness. I couldn't put this book down.

• “Break In Case of Emergency is brimming with sharp, bitingly funny commentary on the absurdities that abound in the world of celebrity philanthropy, and the seeming impossibilities of modern adulthood, but it also gives us smart, lovable characters to guide us through the maze.

  — Caroline Zancan, author of Local Girls 

• Jessica Winter nails the moment in your life when you go from “young” to “no longer young

  — that see-saw teetering point between your 20s and 30s, and its specific mix of ignorance you’ll be embarrassed by later, and confidence you’ll someday wish you could have back.  If you’re wondering what it’s like to live in New York when you’re young, just buy Jessica Winter’s book.  It’s funny, satirical, and deftly written. And it’s much cheaper than a 2-bedroom in Brooklyn.

• Extremely funny – a satirical masterpiece that is tender and existentially-minded as well. I loved it!

  — Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen

• Very smart and juicy and weird and entertaining...it reads like a chick-lit plot written by Jonathan Franzen.

  — Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Eligible