{"id":46349,"date":"2020-02-02T11:12:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T16:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=46349"},"modified":"2020-01-11T10:42:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T15:42:23","slug":"very-nice-by-marcy-dermansky-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/very-nice-by-marcy-dermansky-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-45673\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Very-Nice-Marcy-Dermansky-537x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"537\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Very-Nice-Marcy-Dermansky-537x800.jpg 537w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Very-Nice-Marcy-Dermansky.jpg 677w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/>Satire? Irony? A nine-hour extended joke? Certainly Marcy Dermansky\u2019s latest is rife with almost every stereotype\/clich\u00e9 \u2013 the\u00a0<em>only<\/em> one she thankfully avoids is the brown man as terrorist. That said, for those who survive the first eight hours and 40 minutes, the final poolside scene could prove explosively redemptive.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore \u201cat that overrated liberal arts school on the Hudson\u201d Rachel Klein (made spot-on as overprivileged and whiny by Emily Lawrence) sleeps with her famous writing professor, Zahid Azzam (who is effectively bewildered, as voiced by Vikas Adam). While Zahid travels to his grandmother\u2019s Pakistani deathbed, Rachel takes his poodle to her family\u2019s Connecticut manse for summer break.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel\u2019s still-gorgeous-despite-being-54 mother Becca (crisply voiced by Cassandra Campbell) has recently been left by Wall Street banker husband Jonathan (made impatiently self-absorbed by Johnathan McClain) for VD-ridden, way-younger pilot Mandy. Jonathan\u2019s also boss to financial whiz-kid Khloe-with-a-K (delightfully biting as voiced by January LaVoy) who\u2019s subletting Zahid\u2019s Brooklyn apartment. Zahid returns early and heads to Connecticut with canine-collection as excuse \u2013 and stays, choosing mother over daughter as playmate.<\/p>\n<p>Let the implosions carry on &#8230; and on!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Very-Nice-\/pid=9723639\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Booklist<\/em>, January 3, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satire? Irony? A nine-hour extended joke? Certainly Marcy Dermansky\u2019s latest is rife with almost every stereotype\/clich\u00e9 \u2013 the\u00a0only one she thankfully avoids is the brown man as terrorist. That said, for those who survive the first eight hours and 40 minutes, the final poolside scene&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,81,6,60,296,6535],"tags":[83,84,6608,6668,7631,221,8879,10,51,8558,5951,13,8878,129,64,29,8877,7562],"class_list":["post-46349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-audio","category-fiction","category-nonethnic-specific","category-pakistani","category-repost","tag-assimilation","tag-betrayal","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-booklist-online","tag-cassandra-campbell","tag-emily-lawrence","tag-family","tag-identity","tag-january-lavoy","tag-johnathan-mcclain","tag-love","tag-marcy-dermansky","tag-mother-daughter-relationship","tag-pets-animals","tag-race-racism","tag-very-nice","tag-vikas-adam"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky [in Booklist] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/very-nice-by-marcy-dermansky-in-booklist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky [in Booklist] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Satire? 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