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Yes, Daddy is the kind of story that sticks with you and refuses to leave. Jonathan Parks-Ramage has written a gut-churning, heart-wrenching, blockbuster of a first novel. Deeply queer and deeply human, it is a book that describes what it means to be broken apart in trauma and grief and what it takes to be painfully, carefully stitched back together again. Parks-Ramage is an extraordinary new talent and Yes, Daddy is truly something special. --Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things A dark and aching account, where the treachery of powerful men preys on the bodies and minds of the young. The excesses of a Hamptons summer cannot cover up the truth of how greed and need birth abuses so visceral as to touch the surreal. Parks-Ramage takes a reader into the fiery, unblinking sights of a tortured beast. --Samantha Hunt, author of The Dark Dark Jonathan Parks-Ramage has written an incredibly tender, yet fearless, novel that reminds us of what it means to err, to be forgiven, to forgive, and to live. Yes, Daddy is a gem of a debut. --De'Shawn Charles Winslow, author of In West Mills Yes, Daddy is a deeply humane, complex account of public and private trauma in the age of fake news. Ultimately, this is a story of redemption in an era when grace seems impossible. Deeply familiar yet always surprising and--most important--well-written, this is a superb debut. --Garrard Conley, author of Boy Erased Dark, twisted, and tightly plotted, Yes, Daddy is a to-the-minute thriller about sex, violence, and power. Sure to disturb and enthrall, Jonathan Parks-Rampage's shocker of a debut was made for the screen and for our cultural moment. --Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, author of The Fact of a Body Jonathan Parks-Ramage's dazzling novel Yes, Daddy deftly uses desire and violence to explode the allure of New York power gays. Yet Parks-Ramage has more on his mind than a rarefied milieu; as Yes, Daddy reaches its virtuosic conclusion, it's his bruised narrator's journey to redemption that elevates the book to a kind of ecstasy. A piercing new addition to the contemporary queer canon. --Sam Lansky, author of Broken People If you're in the mood for a dark, gothic (and scary!) romance, look for Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage. It's a novel about a man who schemes to meet what he thinks is Mr. Wealthy and Right but he learns when he's finally invited to Mr. Right's mansion that something is very, very wrong. You can take a book like this on vacation but don't take it to bed with you. --Washington Blade, Spring Reads A riveting queer novel, Yes, Daddy takes a critical look at the way power imbalances play out in relationships. --Electric Literature, 27 Debuts to Look Forward to in the First Half of 2021 [An] emotionally complex debut . . . both erotic and chilling. --Kirkus Reviews

A dark and aching account, where the treachery of powerful men preys on the bodies and minds of the young. The excesses of a Hamptons summer cannot cover up the truth of how greed and need birth abuses so visceral as to touch the surreal. Parks-Ramage takes a reader into the fiery, unblinking sights of a tortured beast. --Samantha Hunt, author of The Dark Dark

One of Entertainment Weekly's 20 Best New Books to Read in May One of Bustle's Debut Books to Look Forward to This Spring and Summer One of Electric Literature's 27 Debuts to Look Forward to in the First Half of 2021 One of NewNowNext's 17 Exciting Queer Books to Savor This Summer Included on Lambda Literary's May's Most Anticipated LGBTQ Literature Yes, Daddy is the kind of story that sticks with you and refuses to leave. Jonathan Parks-Ramage has written a gut-churning, heart-wrenching, blockbuster of a first novel. Deeply queer and deeply human, it is a book that describes what it means to be broken apart in trauma and grief and what it takes to be painfully, carefully stitched back together again. Parks-Ramage is an extraordinary new talent and Yes, Daddy is truly something special. --Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things A dark and aching account, where the treachery of powerful men preys on the bodies and minds of the young. The excesses of a Hamptons summer cannot cover up the truth of how greed and need birth abuses so visceral as to touch the surreal. Parks-Ramage takes a reader into the fiery, unblinking sights of a tortured beast. --Samantha Hunt, author of The Dark Dark Jonathan Parks-Ramage has written an incredibly tender, yet fearless, novel that reminds us of what it means to err, to be forgiven, to forgive, and to live. Yes, Daddy is a gem of a debut. --De'Shawn Charles Winslow, author of In West Mills Yes, Daddy is a deeply humane, complex account of public and private trauma in the age of fake news. Ultimately, this is a story of redemption in an era when grace seems impossible. Deeply familiar yet always surprising and--most important--well-written, this is a superb debut. --Garrard Conley, author of Boy Erased Dark, twisted, and tightly plotted, Yes, Daddy is a to-the-minute thriller about sex, violence, and power. Sure to disturb and enthrall, Jonathan Parks-Rampage's shocker of a debut was made for the screen and for our cultural moment. --Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, author of The Fact of a Body Jonathan Parks-Ramage's dazzling novel Yes, Daddy deftly uses desire and violence to explode the allure of New York power gays. Yet Parks-Ramage has more on his mind than a rarefied milieu; as Yes, Daddy reaches its virtuosic conclusion, it's his bruised narrator's journey to redemption that elevates the book to a kind of ecstasy. A piercing new addition to the contemporary queer canon. --Sam Lansky, author of Broken People Jonathan Parks-Ramage's debut novel is a queer gothic thriller you can't afford to miss. It centers on Jonah, who spends his days waiting tables and dreaming of making it in the theater world. His love affair with Richard, an award-winning playwright, may lead Jonah to the success he craves -- but a summer spent in his lover's eerie Hamptons mansion could change everything. --Bustle, Debut Books to Look Forward to This Spring and Summer If you're in the mood for a dark, gothic (and scary!) romance, look for Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage. It's a novel about a man who schemes to meet what he thinks is Mr. Wealthy and Right but he learns when he's finally invited to Mr. Right's mansion that something is very, very wrong. You can take a book like this on vacation but don't take it to bed with you. --Washington Blade, Spring Reads A riveting queer novel, Yes, Daddy takes a critical look at the way power imbalances play out in relationships. --Electric Literature, 27 Debuts to Look Forward to in the First Half of 2021 Empathetic . . . A story that offers all extremes, from verisimilitude to despair and from a lust for revenge to a longing for home. Fear settles over the reader as they wait for the next blow, making Jonah's story akin to that of the victim in Roxane Gay's An Untamed State. --Booklist, STARRED review [An] emotionally complex debut . . . both erotic and chilling. --Kirkus Reviews

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JONATHAN PARKS-RAMAGE's writing has been widely published in such outlets as VICE, Slate, OUT Magazine, W Magazine, Atlas Obscura, Broadly, and Elle. He is an alumnus of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Jonathan lives in Los Angeles, California, with his partner Ryan O'Connell.Daddy is his debut novel. Kevin R. Free is an audiobook narrator and the winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and several AudioFile best narrations of the year selections. Known for his work with young-adult novels, he has read titles by Rick Riordan, Walter Dean Myers, and Joe Haldeman. In 2011 he was named a Best Voice in Young Adult and Fantasy from AudioFile magazine for his narration of Myers' The Cruisers: Checkmate.

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