Karen Rinaldi's The End of Men is in every way marvelous. A sharply drawn story-or more accurately, stories-that gets everything right. Warm hearted but painfully close to the bone.
Anthony Bourdain With humor, bravery, and panache, Karen Rinaldi puts her finger straight on the tender conundrum of the female experience, where work, love, and motherhood intersect.
Rebecca Miller, director of Maggie's Plan Entertaining and insightful... Four women support one another throughout [a] year of transition, eventually creating their own versions of balance and contentment... [with] perceptive observations on modern motherhood and womanhood.
Publishers Weekly I love all of the women in Rinaldi's novel-Isabel, Anna, Beth, Maggie. Having grown up in a world of women-women who compete with each other, love each other, mother together, navigate life together-I found it thrilling to read a book that is unapologetically about women and our intertwined lives and essential friendships.
Elizabeth Lesser, bestselling author of Broken Open and Marrow Cool and hot, sweet and sharp, The End of Men is a beguiling modern tale of four self-made women who are doing it their way, and the men who're along for the ride. I read it in one sitting, without checking my phone. A novel can't possibly come more highly recommended than that.
Karen Karbo, author of The Gospel According to Coco Chanel In Karen Rinaldi's coy and sprawling novel men still matter. Only we see them through the eyes of four brilliant and fierce women for whom having it all is very much a work in progress. Anna, Beth, Isabel and Maggie collectively are like the phases of the moon: hormonally, emotionally and romantically attuned. Expertly woven together, their voices become a New York City tableau of marriage, children, life, death, careers, pregnancy tests, love and, um, men.
Betsy Lerner, author of The Bridge Ladies