With Friends Like You by Chozick, Amy

A feverish search for a long-lost friend threatens to upend a young woman's life in this darkly funny, gripping thrill ride of a novel that defies all expectations, from New York Times bestselling author Amy Chozick.

Emily is unmoored as a new mother in Manhattan--exhausted, broke, and slipping away from her well-meaning husband. She becomes fixated on finding the one person who ever truly understood her: her college roommate, Daisy. Cool, poetry-reading Daisy, who vanished years ago, after she took a job dancing at a strip club off campus.

In her desperate search, Emily tumbles from new-mom message boards into a world of sex work, secrets, and a high-end escort service for global billionaires, hitting one dead end after another. Until the unthinkable happens: Daisy suddenly reappears.

Daisy infuses Emily's life with newfound purpose and community as the two launch a new mothers' group in a vacant luxury skyscraper (matcha on tap, vibrators on offer). But the joy of their reunion soon fades, revealing deep, unsettling cracks in their relationship. Is Daisy the key to Emily's happiness, or is she unraveling her world? And where has Daisy really been all these years?

With Friends Like You is a story of feverish obsession, new motherhood, and a fractious friendship pushed to the edge.

Author: Amy Chozick
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 07/21/2026
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.24w x 1.19d
ISBN: 9798217046546

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2026
Booklist 06/01/2026

About the Author
Amy Chozick is a bestselling author, screenwriter and award-winning journalist who has covered the biggest stories in politics, business and media for The New York Times. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Chasing Hillary, which she adapted into the HBO Max series The Girls on the Bus. In addition to the Times, Amy's writing has appeared in Vogue, Vanity Fair, and other publications. Amy is currently adapting With Friends Like You into a major motion picture with Fifth Season and Academy Award-winning producer Brad Weston. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son.