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" *One of the Advocate's "5 Most Exciting LGBTQ+ Debut Books to Read This Summer" *One of Men's Health's "25 Best LGBTQ+ Books to Read This Pride Month" *Included on Lambda Literary's "May's Most Anticipated LGBTQ Literature"
Included on Goodreads' "9 Books that Goodreads Editors Highly Recommend" *Included on Entertainment Weekly's "Pride 2021 Must List" *Included on Goodreads' "2021 Pride Reading List"
"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
"[An] emotionally complex debut . . . both erotic and chilling." - Kirkus Reviews
"A heart-racing and heartbreaking thriller." - Goodreads, "9 Books that Goodreads Editors Highly Recommend"
"An unnerving examination of the relationship between Jonah, a young writer struggling in New York City, and Richard, an incredibly wealthy, much-lauded middle-aged playwright . . . In Yes, Daddy, Parks-Ramage deftly hops among multiple genres to spin an unsettling tale of abuse, betrayal, and atonement." - Public Libraries Online
"Yes, Daddy serves to remind readers that sexual assault is not an issue that only straight people face . . . This is a knockout debut, one of the most exciting of the year. Will it make you uncomfortable? Yes, Daddy. Should you still absolutely read it? Yes, Daddy." - The Advocate, "5 Most Exciting LGBTQ+ Debut Books to Read This Summer"
"Page-turning . . . Parks-Ramage suffuses his narrative with a rich atmosphere, somewhere between the Gothic and The Great Gatsby." - Lambda Literary
"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
