It's 2015 in Bushwick, Brooklyn: Sillyboi, an aspiring filmmaker, and Chloe, a tattoo artist, once madly in love and lust, are struggling.
Peter Vack's debut novel is a tragicomic deep dive into modern romantic dysfunction where jealousy, ambition, and Instagram threaten relationships, and the technologies we trust to validate us only fuel suspicion, humiliation, and ruin.
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Vack breathes much needed levity into the horrors of modernity in this singular debut. It’s a hero’s journey, a coming of age story, the evolution from boi to man. It’s also just another moment, trivial —silly!— as any other. Fleeting as a text message, yet permanent as a tattoo. Run don’t walk.”
—Madeline Cash, author of ‘Lost Lambs’
Sillyboy reveals a contemporary, funny, and agonizingly honest voice as it traverses painfully familar themes: codependency, weed addiction, porn sickness, fame, disappointment, intimacy. It is a triump. We as a society need this more than ever.
—Dasha Nekrasova, Redscare Podcast
It’s funny and it’s sly. If Roth supervised the writing of this book in 1985 the main character might be named Peter Vack.
—Alex Ross Perry, Filmaker ‘Listen up Phillip’
Call it autofiction, call it confessional, but call it brilliant.
—Southwest Review
—Southwest Review