title: Who Is Rich?: A Novel
author:  Matthew Klam 
description: <strong><a href="//www.amazon.com/b/?node=390919011">An Amazon Best Book of July 2017:</a></strong> Matthew Klam is an immensely talented author: hes funny, deep, easily readable, and sometimes honest to the point of being startling. Hes written a novelabout a white, middle-aged, once successful graphic novelist-turned-steadily-working-illustratorthat touches on family, love, aging, unhappiness, infidelity, life as a working artist, and money. Making his protagonist white and middle-aged was a brave choice, because Rich (the protagonist) does some complaining in this novel (and some cheating), and a lot of readers dont like to see white, middle-aged men complain or cheat. If thats you, you can stop reading now. But Rich is also an artist. Hes educated, hes talented, and hes frustrated that he still has to struggle to make ends meet. Hes made choices based on passionpassion for his art, for lovewhich is how it should be. But what happens when the passion begins to ebb? What are you left with then? Matthew Klam strikes me as a writers writer, and I think that other authors will love this work; hes just so honest and talented. But there are other people out there who will be practically relieved to come across such rawness, honesty, and humor as well. Perhaps thats you. <em>--Chris Schluep, The Amazon Book Review</em>
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  # PRAISE FOR WHO IS RICH?
  
  
  
  
  
  “ _Who Is Rich?_ is a very funny, very frank, and often shocking book about an
  affair between a man and a woman at an annual writers’ conference at a beach
  town. It is shocking for its intelligent sex scenes and for its Matthew
  Klam–particular observations and its outrageous humor about the way people
  behave when they’re in crisis. It is a book-long meditation on the nature of a
  marriage under the stress of children and financial pressures.”
  
  
  — _Vulture_
  
  
  “By turns fierce, disturbing, and outright hilarious, _Who is Rich?_ is much
  more than a novel of midlife crisis, it’s a frank exploration of what it feels
  like to struggle as an artist and a man. Klam writes like a surgeon, with the
  sharpest of scalpels, and cuts to the bone.”
  
  
  —Jonathan Tropper
  
  
  “Crazy brilliant—imagine a satirical, ruthlessly funny Richard Ford or a
  Philip Roth novel with bite.”
  
  
  — _The National Book Review_
  
  
  “ _Who Is Rich?_ is a tantalizing novel—acu