The Hypocrite: A Novel
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Jo Hamya. (2024). The Hypocrite: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Jo Hamya. 2024. The Hypocrite: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2024.

Jo Hamya. The Hypocrite: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2024.

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ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • DAKOTA JOHNSON’S TEATIME PICTURES SEPTEMBER BOOK CLUB PICK ● From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a novel set between the London stage and Sicily, about a daughter who turns her novelist father’s fall from grace into a play, and a father who increasingly fears his precocious daughter’s voice.
“A sharp book, beautifully written.” —Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind and Entitlement
"Excellent...I enjoyed the novel hugely...Like Edward St Aubyn and Anne Enright, Hamya is so good on generational conflict, the friction of family, and the damage done by charming but complacent men. But The Hypocrite is a strikingly original book too. I tore through it, shoulders clenched but full of admiration."
—David Nicholls, author of One Day, in Electric Literature
August 2020. Sophia, a young playwright, awaits her father’s verdict on her new show. A famous author whose novels haven’t aged as gracefully into the modern era as he might have hoped, he is completely unaware that the play centers around a vacation the two took years earlier to an island off Sicily, where he dictated to her a new book. Sophia’s play has been met with rave reviews, but her father has studiously avoided reading any of them. When the house lights dim however, he understands that his daughter has laid him bare, has used the events of their summer to create an incisive, witty, skewering critique of the attitudes and sexual mores of the men of his generation.  
Set through one staging of the play, The Hypocrite seamlessly and scorchingly shifts time and perspective, illuminating an argument between a father and his daughter that, with impeccable nuance, examines the fraught inheritances each generation is left to contend with and the struggle to nurture empathy in a world changing at lightning-speed.

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     June 3, 2024
     Hamya’s provocative second novel (after Three Rooms) lays bare a family’s fraught relationships over the course of an afternoon at the theater. Sophia’s father, a successful novelist, attends a matinee performance of her play, having no idea until it begins that it’s about him. The play recounts a summer holiday in Sicily a decade earlier, when Sophia was 17 and her father insisted she take dictation for the novel he was writing. In flashbacks from Sophia’s point of view, she reveals her disgust with her father’s misogynistic writing and his philandering, which she dramatizes on stage—in one scene, the character based on her father has sex with a woman in the kitchen of the place where he is staying with his daughter. During intermission, Sophia’s father overhears a fellow audience member call the play “social justice for the upper middle class,” which prompts him to come to Sophia’s defense. During the performance, Sophia has lunch with her mother, who divorced Sophia’s father years earlier and who claims her marital duties were a mix of “companionship and coddling.” None of the characters escape Hamya’s bemused and excoriating view, nor are there any easy answers to the questions raised about expressions of gender and privilege in art. Fans of Anne Enright’s The Wren, the Wren ought to take note.

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     June 1, 2024
     

     It's August 2020, and playwright Sophia is wondering what her father, a famous author, thinks of her newest show. He is in the audience, about to watch, unaware it is about him, and the vacation they took two years ago to Sicily. From the buzzy author of Three Rooms. Prepub Alert.

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     June 15, 2024
     A controversial 60-something novelist finds the tables turned when his daughter writes a scathing play about their Italian holiday years earlier. One writer in the family is unfortunate, two make for catastrophe: That's one takeaway from this sophomore novel by the author of Three Rooms (2021). Sophia's father (who's never named) attends a matinee performance of his daughter's play at a London theater. Upstairs, Sophia and her mother--long divorced from her father but recently pulled back into his orbit by the pandemic--eat lunch in the rooftop restaurant, edgily awaiting his reaction. Downstairs, he's outraged to discover that the play is based on a vacation he took with teenage Sophia, during which she served as his amanuensis, sulkily bristling at his dictation by day ("He'd never said please for the duration of their work together") and overhearing his casual sexual encounters by night. As Sophia's father sits in the audience cringing at her portrayal of him ("He wonders what he's done to be so abysmally misunderstood by the most important person in his life"), he must acknowledge that her play is brilliant: "It's like the novel Sophia helped him write, but better....He'd spent 400 pages anatomising three centuries' worth of the English novel against his generation's attitudes to sex, and here she is, neatly holding just one of his books against the entirety of her generation's values." Gender roles, generation gaps, the nature of genius: Hamya explores big ideas but is at her best offering precise observations; a sly coda strikingly reframes the drama of Sophia and her father. And who, exactly, is the hypocrite of the title? A biting novel of art, inheritance, and evolving mores.

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     September 6, 2024
     Sophia, a young playwright seeing her first major play produced in London shortly after the COVID lockdown, has grown up in her father's shadow. A famous author known for writing masculine, meandering novels, her father adopted a gruff public persona as his writing success grew. Now he's known for inflammatory and anti-progressive zingers as a way to resist identity politics and cancel culture. Sophia's play is a roast of her bumbling father and the time they spent together on holiday when Sophia was a teenager. They spent the days transcribing his latest novel (father dictating, daughter typing) and at night, Sophia faced a parade of his overnight guests. This novel takes place as the famous author attends his daughter's new play for the first time. While he watches the action unfold, Sophia has lunch with her mother, the author's ex-wife. Hamya's (Three Rooms, 2021) second novel explores fundamental generational differences, particularly in literature, and what happens when the dominant players in the 1970s sexual revolution (white men) are forced to confront new perspectives (#MeToo).

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ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • DAKOTA JOHNSON’S TEATIME PICTURES SEPTEMBER BOOK CLUB PICK ● From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a novel set between the London stage and Sicily, about a daughter who turns her novelist father’s fall from grace into a play, and a father who increasingly fears his precocious daughter’s voice.
“A sharp book, beautifully written.” —Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind and Entitlement
"Excellent...I enjoyed the novel hugely...Like Edward St Aubyn and Anne Enright, Hamya is so good on generational conflict, the friction of family, and the damage done by charming but complacent men. But The Hypocrite is a strikingly original book too. I tore through it, shoulders clenched but full of admiration."
—David Nicholls, author of One Day, in Electric...

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