Mayer lays bare the terrible destiny of a society obsessed with social media stalking and
celebrity relationships. -Julia Heaberlin bestselling author of We Are All the Same in the
Dark In this raucous psychological thriller a disillusioned millennial joins a cliquey fan
club only to discover that the group is bound together by something darker than devotion Day
after day our narrator searches for meaning beyond her vacuous job at a women's lifestyle
website-entering text into a computer system while she watches their beauty editor unwrap box
after box of perfectly packaged bits of happiness. Then one night at a dive bar she hears a
message in the newest single by international pop star Adriana Argento and she is struck. Soon
she loses herself to the online fandom a community whose members feverishly track Adriana's
every move. When a colleague notices her obsession she's invited to join an enigmatic group of
adult Adriana superfans who call themselves the Ivies and worship her music in witchy candlelit
listening parties. As the narrator becomes more entrenched in the group she gets closer to
uncovering the sinister secrets that bind them together-while simultaneously losing her grip on
reality. With caustic wit and hypnotic writing this unsparingly critical thrill ride through
millennial life examines all that is wrong in our celebrity-obsessed internet age and how easy
it is to lose yourself in it.
