" The Stager is great fun, and Coll proves herself as shrewd a social anthropologist as she is a buoyant writer." -- Meghan Daum, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "Hilarious . Throughout this antic tale, Coll shows us what happens to people when they don't feel heard or seen, when they wind up walking around as human versions of a house that's been carefully denuded of the things that made it warm and welcoming-that made it a home." -- Julie Klam, The Washington Post "Fun to read, and smart-but not snarky.Susan Coll doesn't so much skewer her characters as reveal them." -- Chicago Tribune "Sometimes a book just takes you by the hand and swings you deliriously in a new dance-that is The Stager , Susan Coll's brilliant comic novel. I loved it." -- Cathleen Schine, author of Fin & Lady and The Three Weissmanns of Westport "Already the viciously funny book.

is being categorized alongside Maria Semple's 2012 bestseller, Where'd You Go, Bernadette? " -- Ellen McCarthy, The Washington Post "Wry metaphors of suburban rot abound. [this is] the work of a very good comic novelist.Chuck your attachment to rationality and cheerfully follow Coll down the rabbit hole." -- The Washingtonian "Overgrown houses, failed planned communities, and a consumerist culture contrast with the stager's efforts to declutter and sterilize in this offbeat social satire. Coll takes on marriage, friendship, and fidelity to dark-comic effect. " -- Booklist "Coll ( Beach Wee k, 2010, etc.) ratchets up the level of wit and mean edginess in her newest satire. Coll's vicious depiction of upper-upper-middle-class suburbia is often excruciatingly funny.

" -- Kirkus Reviews "[Coll] mines a darker brand of humor." -- Publishers Weekly "Funny and biting suburban farce" -- Library Journal "Dark, luminous, and hilarious, The Stager draws its radiant power from the great time-tested themes: love, betrayal, and the redemptive power of rabbits. At the height of her powers, Susan Coll reveals her mastery of the wry and delicious line, of the bizarre and tender moment--and of hope." --Dylan Landis, author of Normal People Don't Live Like This "What a delight to follow Susan Coll on her tour of one family's surreal unraveling. Sly and wise, Coll is a stager extraordinaire, allowing us to peer behind the curtain of suburban success and excess. I loved this novel's wild wit. Now I want to adopt the Jorgenson family's precocious kid--and their stoned rabbit." --Lisa Zeidner, author ofLove Bomb.