Jessica Shattuck is the author of the novels “Perfect Life” and “The Hazards of Good Breeding.”
Entertainment Weekly called “Perfect Life” “a smart, sad rumination on the pursuit of happiness. … With elegant prose, Shattuck manages to make her characters’ stories feel both engrossing and utterly real.” Tom Perrotta called it “a vivid, fascinating snapshot of the way some of us live now” and an “engrossing, deceptively ambitious novel.”
In its review of “The Hazards of Good Breeding,” the Los Angeles Times raved that “reading Jessica Shattuck’s pitch perfect first novel is like spying on the children and grandchildren of John Cheever’s Wapshots.” In The New York Times Book Review, Jennifer Egan called it “a witty and promising first novel … (Shattuck’s) descriptive brio can leave the reader punchy with surprise and admiration.”
It was a New York Times notable book and a finalist for the 2003 PEN/Winship award.
Her writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, The Believer, Wired, Mother Jones, and Glamour, among other publications.
She lives in Cambridge, Mass. Visit her online at www.jessicashattuck.com.
