“Ambition Monster is as hilarious as it is heart-wrenching. Through bad boyfriends, complicated coworkers, and just enough luck, Jennifer Romolini uses sharp sentences and vulnerability to tell the story of a life spent in hot pursuit of the love, validation, and the significance we all desire. Page after page, chapter after chapter, I found myself riding with Romolini down the rabbit hole of her successes, and often enough, right into the glaring light of her failures. Ambition Monster is a gift of storytelling, and an act of reclamation.” —Ashley C. Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Somebody’s Daughter

“Jennifer Romolini is a big-hearted, hilarious genius who has generously ripped her life open to let us pick at her scars, and we are luckier for it.” —Samantha Irby, New York Times bestselling author of Quietly Hostile, Wow, No Thank You, and We Are Never Meeting In Real Life

“Ambition Monster grabbed me in its teeth and wouldn't let me go. Jennifer Romolini's memoir is propulsive and funny and human and wise all at once. It's rare to find a book that says such hard truths about work, money, and, yes, ambition. I devoured it, or maybe it devoured me.” —Claire Dederer, bestselling author of Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma

“An exquisitely written reckoning with our own career hunger: where it comes from, but also what it costs us. Ambition Monster is weird and funny and brutally honest in all of the best ways. If you find yourself on the other end of burnout, trying desperately to figure out a new way forward — wow, is this book for you.” —Anne Helen Petersen, author of Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

“A personal look at the toxic underbelly of a successful corporate career…[Romolini] guides readers through the dark alleyways of corporate life, confronting the problems of viewing self-worth through the lens of a career.” —Kirkus

“Jennifer Romolini’s storytelling feels like the warm, urgent whisper of a friend—a friend you'd follow to the back room of a bar, or the ends of the earth, or just the nearest park bench to cry on. Her willingness to look unflinchingly at the hardest parts of her own upbringing, anger, and workaholism renders what could be the cringiest, most embarrassing stuff of life into a tender, beautiful, and endlessly relatable journey. Ambition Monster is the rare book that makes me grateful to be a messy human, this messy human, myself. It will do the same for you.” —Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor

“Reading Ambition Monster is the equivalent of staying up very late with someone who gets you, drinking vodka and looking at the stars while telling truths, dreaming dreams and feeling woozy from being understood. It is a soul book, an intense but beautiful ride.” —Catherine Connors, author of The Feminine Revolution