Advance Praise for
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
“Duchess Goldblatt Is a Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside a Twitter Account”, by Kate Dwyer, The New York Times
Featured in The New York Times' Summer Reading Suggestions, Hand-Picked For Your Taste
“…deeply satisfying, unexpectedly moving and not spoilery in the least. And as lovable as the duchess herself.” — Julie Klam, New York Times Book Review
Named a "Most Anticipated Book of 2020" by Real Simple
“It is a tonic, a gift for our anxious summer.” —Washington Post
kirkus reviews, starred review:
"A fascinating memoir by a 21st-century original."
REAL SIMPLE:
"Surely you follow Duchess Goldblatt on Twitter? If not, do yourself a favor and hit that button to subscribe to her delightful musings. In Becoming Duchess Goldblatt, the Duchess' real-life anonymous creator writes about crafting one of Twitter's (if not the Internet's) best accounts and healing herself in the process."
MARIE CLAIRE:
"A life-affirming memoir from the anonymous author."
BOSTON GLOBE:
“Her proclamations sound like pithy lines from a standup special — that is, if the comedian was God and if God was an 81-year-old woman from the 17th century […] It’s loving the bizarre and cherishing the weird that Goldblatt does best. And it’s why so many people trust her to tell them how to live, how to treat themselves with more compassion, how to treat each other better, too.”
The Globe and Mail:
“It isn’t an easy thing for a book to do: make people laugh and also move them. Becoming Duchess Goldblatt does both.”
LYLE LOVETT:
“Becoming Duchess Goldblatt is a story about the importance of community—of kindness, acceptance, and friendship. The world would be a better place if we all became Duchess Goldblatt.”
ALEXANDER CHEE, author of THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT and HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL:
"A memoir that is, ironically, about the power a fiction can exert on us all, she tells us a story about late Capitalism, social media, the financial crisis, and America, and being a woman trying to survive it all. Whatever someone expects this to be, it isn’t, and that is, perhaps, the real secret to the Duchess underneath it all."
Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers:
"This book is, like Duchess Goldblatt herself, nothing you expect and everything you need. It's a memoir not just of one life (failures and triumphs laid bare) but also of a second self—its creation, its evolution, its improbable splendor. We may never deserve Duchess Goldblatt and her magnanimity, but her inventor most certainly does."
Elizabeth Mccracken, author of bowlaway:
“The question I am most often asked by readers out in the world, is, ‘Who is Duchess Goldblatt?’ The correct answer is, ‘She is the Universe’s secret admirer, a made-up & hilarious octogenarian who lives on Twitter, who delivers love and demands it in equal, astonishing measure.’ What they mean is: what’s her real identity? This book does not precisely reveal that. Instead it’s the actual memoir of a fictional person, a meditation on what it means to start again in the oddest way possible. It is also heartbreaking, funny, gorgeously written, surprising, brilliant, profound, the book only Duchess Goldblatt herself could have written.”
Lori gottlieb, author of maybe you should talk to someone:
“After reading this unforgettable memoir, I figured out who Duchess Goldblatt is: all of us. Behind her brilliantly witty and uplifting message is a remarkable vulnerability and candor that reminds us that we are not alone in our struggles--and that we can, against all odds, get through them. As though casting a magic spell on her readers, she moves, inspires, and connects us through her unvarnished humanity. It was, for this therapist, a form of therapy I didn't know I needed.”
Laura Lippman, author of lady in the lake:
“What an unexpected marvel of a book, funny and poignant and—dare I say— sweet. It’s fashionable to bash social media, but without, we wouldn’t have Duchess and that would be a damn shame.”