'Raw provocative chaotic and - dare I say - slutty' COLLEEN HOOVER A thrilling memoir by The
White Lotus and Euphoria actor Lukas Gage which chronicles his upbringing in a broken family
struggles with borderline personality disorder and his commitment to always being the centre of
attention. Lukas Gage was having one of the shittiest weeks of his life. His beloved
grandmother was dying and Lukas was sitting next to his father - a man who had been mostly
absent in his son's childhood except when talking to Lukas about tits. They were also across
the street from a building where months prior Lukas had to grapple with the dissolution of
his marriage. Naturally Lukas did the smartest thing anyone can do in a crisis: doomscroll to
see what random people on the internet were saying about him. People were calling him an
attention whore - and they were right. As a toddler he set his room on fire. As a child he
flirted with women at Hooters. As a teen he fell hopelessly in love with a girl who wore an
ankle monitor. And as an adult he became an actor and filmed that scene in The White Lotus (if
you know you know). Lukas was scared of attention and yet he craved it more than anything in
the world. I Wrote This for Attention is an exquisite memoir that details Lukas' coming of age
in the haunting underbelly of San Diego. Capturing universal anxieties - of transitioning from
innocence to adulthood of feeling too much and nothing at all of sex and death of fame and
familial strife - this book is a remarkable achievement of healing vaping through therapy
sessions and having the courage to forgive the family that hurt you.
