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How far will I go in the name of ambition? Where is the line between exploitation and art? These are the questions Cass asks herself in Jen Silverman’s sharp and enthralling debut novel. A professional triumph followed by a humiliating public downfall leads this New York-based playwright to flee for a new life — and new opportunities — in Los Angeles. There, Cass is pulled into a dark world, one where she must reckon with her pursuits of fame and fortune.
After a humiliating scandal, a young writer flees to the West Coast, where she is drawn into the morally ambiguous orbit of a charismatic filmmaker and the teenage girls who are her next subjects.
“A blistering story about the costs of creating art.”—O: The Oprah Magazine (LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape)
Not too long ago, Cass was a promising young playwright in New York, hailed as “a fierce new voice” and “queer, feminist, and ready to spill the tea.” But at the height of all this attention, Cass finds herself at the center of a searing public shaming, and flees to Los Angeles to escape—and reinvent herself. There she meets her next-door neighbor Caroline, a magnetic filmmaker on the rise, as well as the pack of teenage girls who hang around her house. They are the subjects of Caroline’s next semidocumentary movie, which follows the girls' clandestine activity: a Fight Club inspired by the violent classic—but with a twist.
Number of pages: 336
Dimensions: 223 x 147 x 30 mm
“A blistering story about the costs of creating art.”—O: The Oprah Magazine (LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape)
Not too long ago, Cass was a promising young playwright in New York, hailed as “a fierce new voice” and “queer, feminist, and ready to spill the tea.” But at the height of all this attention, Cass finds herself at the center of a searing public shaming, and flees to Los Angeles to escape—and reinvent herself. There she meets her next-door neighbor Caroline, a magnetic filmmaker on the rise, as well as the pack of teenage girls who hang around her house. They are the subjects of Caroline’s next semidocumentary movie, which follows the girls' clandestine activity: a Fight Club inspired by the violent classic—but with a twist.
Number of pages: 336
Dimensions: 223 x 147 x 30 mm
