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PRAISE
“Here you’ll find that gothic horror, so often lurking in the dingy dark, can manifest also in the fluorescent world of the terminally online.”—NPR
“[An] incisive social satire . . . a funny, dark look at the new creator economy in a way only Leigh Stein can.”—TOWN & COUNTRY, “The Must-Read Books of the Summer”
“For anyone who has felt fate intervening on their TikTok feed” —USA TODAY
“A gothic horror story wrapped up in a mystery [with] much to say about Hollywood, social media, and the creator economy” —LOS ANGELES TIMES
“Soooo good . . . TikTok hype house gothic-literary drama.”—THE CUT
“Leigh Stein’s work provokes you like the most unsettling clip you’ve ever seen on a screen—and you won’t be able to look away.”—JULIA PHILLIPS
“A masterpiece and laugh-out-loud funny . . . the first novel about TikTok that takes it seriously, in all its hideousness and brain rot . . . I’m obsessed with the fusion of Gothic creeping dread and the seductive allure of the algorithm. I loved this!”—JOSH LORA, @tellthebeees
“Leigh Stein [has] cemented herself as a satirist of Our Present Moment. Turns out nothing is scarier than the influence machine.”—LITERARY HUB
IF YOU’RE SEEING THIS, IT’S MEANT FOR YOU
by LEIGH STEIN
Are you inhabiting the internet?
Or is the internet inhabiting you?
The first literary TikTok novel.
A national bestseller.
After her boyfriend dumps her in a Reddit post, unemployed thirty-nine-year-old Dayna accepts an unusual opportunity from a man she stopped speaking to twenty years ago: If Dayna can help Craig transform his crumbling mansion into a successful hype house of influencers, he can restore his birthright to its former glory, and she can bring her career back from the dead.
But missing from the mansion is Becca, an enigmatic tarot card reader who built a rabid fandom with her cryptic, soul-touching videos . . . and then vanished. With nineteen-year-old Olivia, the newest member of the hype house (and one of Becca’s biggest fans), Dayna begins to build a social media campaign around Becca’s disappearance that will catapult the creators to new heights of success. Too bad Craig forbids Dayna from pursuing the mystery at its heart.
As Olivia searches for traces of Becca in a labyrinthine house that seems intent on hiding its secrets, and Dayna becomes entangled with both Craig and Jake, the resident heartthrob and the last person to see Becca, the two women make a shocking discovery that will upend everything.
AUTHOR
Leigh Stein is the bestselling author of six books, including the critically acclaimed satirical novel Self Care, and the creator of the Attention Economy newsletter on Substack. She has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Allure, ELLE, Airmail, and The Cut.
FOR
. . . fans of Mona Awad’s Bunny, Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This, Beth Morgan’s A Touch of Jen, and Ainslie Hogarth’s Motherthing.
. . . doomscrollers, zillennials, Tumblr art girls, tarot card readers, social media skeptics, bunny lovers.