JONATHAN PARKS-RAMAGE
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Los Angeles, 2044. A wealthy gay couple refuse to cancel their baby shower, even as a potentially apocalyptic event wreaks havoc on the city they call home. It's Not the End of the World is a terrifying climate thriller, a vicious satire of the uber-wealthy, and a queer family saga that isn't afraid to punch back.
REVIEWS
A New York Times Style Magazine pick for Best Queer Summer Fiction
An Electric Literature pick for Most Anticipated Queer Summer Reads
“Parks-Ramage takes the idea of a wealthy, sometimes frivolous main character getting ready for a party and dials it up to 11. But then, in an ambitious move that brings a delightful element of camp to the novel, he abandons that relatively safe and simple premise in favor of an exercise in maximalism. Which is to say that his plot goes off the rails - and it works...It's Not the End of the World is a wild ride of a novel. Sometimes you have to laugh so you won't cry - and as is usually the case with camp, there is something true and painful running beneath the humor.” ―Ilana Masad, Los Angeles Times
“Scarily prescient, outrageously funny, and utterly original, It's Not the End of the World has officially made “baby shower climate thriller” my new favorite genre. Parks-Ramage is that rarest of finds: a biting social satirist, a bonafide weirdo, and a writer of real conscience and heart. I devoured this book-and it, frankly, devoured me.” ―Coco Mellors, New York Times bestselling author of BLUE SISTERS
“It's Not the End of the World reads like the best yap sesh you have with your friends after splitting a pitcher of mimosas at brunch...[Parks Ramage] distorts humanity just to the point of recognition, delivering a sharp-tongued satire indicting the current political landscape as well as human greed and apathy.” ―Liz Doupnik, Marie Claire
“After the success of his debut modern gothic novel Yes, Daddy, Parks-Ramage returns with this new yarn chronicling the lives of queer men navigating homophobia, political opposition, a totalitarian government, and climate collapse in a futuristic world...This is a wild ride that spans a century in the life of two queer fathers in the future.” ―Jim Piechota, Bay Area Reporter
"Parks-Ramage offers a bracing tale of a commune of queer progressives attempting to survive an authoritarian government and the ravages of climate change. As wildfires decimate a near-future Los Angeles, toxic clouds induce violent psychosis, and the government oppresses the LGBTQ+ community ... The author peppers the nightmarish narrative with plenty of inspired ideas, such as an apocalypse-themed vacation retreat modeled after Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, and he shines in his depiction of the makeshift family’s love for each other, which is expressed in the increasingly extreme lengths they go to in protecting one another."
—Publishers Weekly
“It's Not the End of the World is both a demented, technicolor romp through end times and a heartbreaking story of love and family. From its terrifying opening to its gut punch conclusion, this grotesque, hilarious, beautiful novel had me in its thrall. Parks-Ramage has written the most imaginative and visceral cli-fi I've read to date.” ―Kate Brody, author of RABBIT HOLE
“It's Not the End of the World is a prescient and harrowing page turner and a brutally vivid wakeup call blending queer family making, an Atwood-esque ethos and a horny gay odyssey. Parks-Ramage warns us that the eradication of queer peoples' rights isn't only feasible, we're barreling directly toward its inevitability. Yet despite the terrors at play, we're imbued with hope that speculative fiction of this caliber combined with our will to persist might just save us all.” ―Jason Yamas, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of TWEAKER WORLD
“Parks-Ramage's ambitiously bonkers new page turner It's Not the End of the World is a mash-up of social satire, sci-fi, soap opera, and horror set on the edge of the apocalypse. Both snark and gore ramp up quickly (a mutilated body is “still breathing tartare”) as Parks-Ramage pulls the reader into a breathless B-movie world situated somewhere between Mad Max and The Real Housewives.” ―Jim Gladstone, Passport Magazine, "Favorite Books for Summer 2025"
“Terrifying, tender, prescient: read Jonathan Parks-Ramage's eco-thriller at your peril. The countdown to the future starts here.” ―Taymour Soomro, author of OTHER NAMES FOR LOVE
“It's Not the End of the World is a gonzo queer dystopic thriller. Jonathan Parks-Ramage explodes sentimental genre conventions with shoot-em-up style, satirical verve, and an exuberant view of the end.” ―Kyle Dillon Hertz, author of THE LOOKBACK WINDOW
“A head-spinning sendup of our current catastrophe - bursting with gory guts but also deadly serious about trust, lust, and other complexities of human connection.” ―Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of GAY BAR and DEEP HOUSE
"A gore- and sex-fueled satire...this novel skewers privilege and denial with bleakness and hilarity."
—Electric Literature
“Existential political threats turn America into a nightmare in this ambitious tale... a takedown of wealth inequality and consumption in the age of environmental destruction.”
—Kirkus Reviews
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A propulsive modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who is lured by an older, successful playwright into a dizzying world of wealth and an idyllic Hamptons home where things take a nightmarish turn.
REVIEWS
Named one of the best queer books of 2021 by Entertainment Weekly, NBC News, The Advocate, Lambda Literary, Bustle, Goodreads, Men's Health, and Electric Literature.
"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
“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
“Jonathan Parks-Ramage’s dazzling novel Yes, Daddy deftly uses desire and violence to explode the allure of New York power gays. Yet Parks-Ramage has more on his mind than a rarefied milieu; as Yes, Daddy reaches its virtuosic conclusion, it’s his bruised narrator’s journey to redemption that elevates the book to a kind of ecstasy. A piercing new addition to the contemporary queer canon.” — Sam Lansky, author of Broken People
"Jonathan Parks-Ramage’s debut novel is a queer gothic thriller you can’t afford to miss. It centers on Jonah, who spends his days waiting tables and dreaming of making it in the theater world. His love affair with Richard, an award-winning playwright, may lead Jonah to the success he craves — but a summer spent in his lover’s eerie Hamptons mansion could change everything." — Bustle, "Debut Books to Look Forward to This Spring and Summer"
"If you’re in the mood for a dark, gothic (and scary!) romance, look for Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage. It’s a novel about a man who schemes to meet what he thinks is Mr. Wealthy and Right but he learns when he’s finally invited to Mr. Right’s mansion that something is very, very wrong. You can take a book like this on vacation but don’t take it to bed with you." — Washington Blade, "Spring Reads"
"A riveting queer novel, Yes, Daddy takes a critical look at the way power imbalances play out in relationships." — Electric Literature, "27 Debuts to Look Forward to in the First Half of 2021"
"Empathetic. . . A story that offers all extremes, from verisimilitude to despair and from a lust for revenge to a longing for home. Fear settles over the reader as they wait for the next blow, making Jonah's story akin to that of the victim in Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State." — Booklist (starred review)
"[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