Famous Baby
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“Famous Baby is inventive, hysterical, and touching. Karen Rizzo wraps a timeless drama about the love between mothers and daughters in a fresh, snappy package for the social media age.” —CHRISTINA SCHWARZ, author of The Edge of the Earth and Drowning Ruth, an Oprah’s Book Club Selection
Before there were Real Housewives and Tiger Moms, the was Ruth Sternberg, the hugely popular First Mother of Mommy Blogging—or, as Ruth’s daughter, Abbie prefers to call her, the First Lady of Cyber Exploitation.
Eighteen year-old Abbie has finally found her way out of the limelight, by moving a solid five hundred miles away from Ruth and her “maternal instincts.” But when she hears that her ailing, beloved grandmother is moving in with Ruth, she suspects that her mother has found a new blog subject to exploit. Abbie kidnaps Grandma to save her from the same fate, and thus begins an uproarious battle of wills. Famous Baby wisely and hilariously explores mother love, identity, and the hazards of parental over-sharing in the social media age.
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Book details
- Author
- Karen Rizzo
- Imprint
- Prospect Park Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 240
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Fiction › Family Life
Fiction › Women
Fiction › Humorous - Topics
- mother-daughter relationships · mommy blogging · social media satire · oversharing · helicopter parenting · humorous fiction · family life · privacy
- ISBN-13
- 9781938849305
About the author
KAREN RIZZO is the author of Famous Baby, her first novel, and the memoir Things to Bring, S#!T to Do, a Book Sense/IndieBound selection built around her penchant for lists.
Rizzo is the recipient of a MAGGIE Award for Best Essay in a West Coast Consumer Magazine. Her stories and essays have appeared on NPR and in the Los Angeles Times, Living Fit, Salon, Beatrice, Fresh Yarn, and VIVmag, as well as the anthology Life’s A Stitch: The Best of Contemporary Women’s Humor.
When she’s not writing, Rizzo has developed plays and performance pieces seen at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, Samuel Beckett Theatre, and ARCADE, and she is a longtime member of Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Karen lives in Los Angeles, California, with her actor husband and two children.