Looker

By: Laura Sims

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Paperback | 1 October 2019

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208 Pages

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20.96 x 13.34 x 1.27

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One of Vogue&;s Best Books of 2019

*Vogue&;s &;Most Anticipated Books of 2019&;
*Entertainment Weekly&;s &;One of January&;s Hottest Reads&;
*Literary Hub&;s &;Most Anticipated Books of 2019&;
*Southern Living&;s &;Best New Books Coming Out Winter 2019&;

In this taut, arresting debut, a woman becomes fixated on her neighbor&;the actress.

Though the two women live just a few doors apart, a chasm lies between them. The actress, a celebrity with a charmed career, shares a gleaming brownstone with her handsome husband and three adorable children, while the recently separated narrator, unhappily childless and stuck in a dead-end job, lives in a run-down, three-story walk-up with her ex-husband&;s cat.

As her fascination grows, the narrator&;s hold on reality begins to slip. Before long, she&;s collecting cast-off items from the actress&;s stoop and fantasizing about sleeping with the actress&;s husband. After a disastrous interaction with the actress at the annual block party, what began as an innocent preoccupation turns into a stunning&;and irrevocable&;unraveling. Immersive and darkly entertaining, Looker is a searing psychological portrait of obsession.

Industry Reviews

"In prose that moves between lyrical and caterwauling, the poet Laura Sims has pulled off the high-wire act of making bitterness delicious." --Vogue

"[Looker] is an ephemeral fiction with a hard landing--like a window, seen in passing, that glows and goes dark." --The New Yorker

"Sims's debut is a breathless and unrelenting portrait of one woman's unraveling." --Greer Hendricks, New York Times bestselling co-author of The Wife Between Us

"An unflinching portrayal of women looking upon each other as disturbingly as men do." --The New Statesman

"A perfect, dark pleasure. . . . A rare debut filled with gorgeous sentences, savory twists, and shot through with ferocious truths, this is the kind of book that can only be written by an author who is thrillingly unafraid." --Mona Awad, author of Bunny

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