AN INDIE NEXT PICK “The exact thing we need right now: a fierce fearless and funny novel
about celebrity and our almost pathological obsession with it.” — Boston Globe Daisy Jones and
the Six meets Patricia Highsmith in this addictive intense novel about the brutal and
ferocious road to glory from the award-winning author of My Husband . Ever since she was a
child Cléo the French-American daughter of two academics has had only one obsession:
becoming a famous singer. Over the years to everyone’s surprise but her own she overcomes
every obstacle and becomes a global superstar with millions of dollars countless awards and
several Los Angeles villas to her name. But as any celebrity will tell you getting to the top
is one thing staying there is another. Now thirty-three years old Cléo is taking her first
real vacation in years on a remote island with no one else in sight. With the never-ending
spin cycle of her life finally on pause and no paparazzi peeking out from behind the coconut
palms she can work on her fourth album in peace. Except that with so much time to think she
can’t help but ruminate on her past—including how just six months earlier things started to
go very very wrong . . . Taking place between New York Paris Los Angeles and the South
Pacific Make Me Famous is a brilliant sophomore novel from Maud Ventura that dives
intoxicatingly deep into the machinations of one woman’s complicated mind and her relentless
pursuit of fame.
