One of Vogue’s Best Books of 2019

*Vogue’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2019”

*Entertainment Regular’s “One of January’s Hottest Reads”

*Literary Hub’s “Most Expected Books of 2019”

*Southern Living’s “Greatest New Books Coming Out Winter 2019”

With this taut, arresting debut, a female becomes fixated on her neighbor—the actress.

Though the two women live just a few doors aside, a chasm lies between them. The celebrity, a celebrity using a charmed career, shares a gleaming brownstone with her good-looking hubby and three lovable children, as the recently separated narrator, unhappily childless and trapped within a dead-end work, lives in a run-down, three-story walk-up with her ex-husband’s kitty.

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 celebrity’s spouse. After a devastating interaction with the celebrity on the annual block party, what started as an innocent preoccupation becomes a stunning—and irrevocable—unraveling. Immersive and darkly engaging, Looker is normally a searing emotional portrait of obsession.