Followers

By Megan Angelo

Book Overview

This dark, pitch-perfect novel about our dependence on technology for validation and human connection is as addictive as social media itself." --People

A TIME AND NPR BEST BOOK OF 2020


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An electrifying story of two ambitious friends and the dark choices they make to become internet famous.

Orla Cadden is a budding novelist stuck in a dead-end job, writing clickbait about movie-star hookups and influencer yoga moves. Then Orla meets Floss--a striving, wannabe A-lister--who comes up with a plan for launching them both into the high-profile lives they dream about. So what if Orla and Floss's methods are a little shady--and sometimes people get hurt? Their legions of followers can't be wrong.

Thirty-five years later, in a closed California village where government-appointed celebrities live every moment of the day on camera, a woman named Marlow discovers a shattering secret about her past. Despite her massive popularity--twelve million loyal followers--Marlow dreams of fleeing the corporate sponsors who would do anything to keep her on-screen. When she learns that her whole family history is based on a lie, Marlow finally summons the courage to run in search of the truth, no matter the risks.

Followers traces the paths of Orla, Floss and Marlow as they wind through time toward each other, and toward a cataclysmic event that sends America into lasting upheaval. At turns wry and tender, bleak and hopeful, this darkly funny story reminds us that even if we obsess over famous people we'll never meet, what we really crave is genuine human connection.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1525836269
• ISBN13: 9781525836268
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Graydon House
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Followers was interesting

This book was like a mash between The Circle and The Truman Show. I enjoyed it because although it isn't real quite yet, I think the world is well on its way to becoming like what happened in Followers. There are so many people that follow famous actors and buy what they wear and eat what they eat so that maybe one day they can become like said actors. The story is told in alternating viewpoints between that of Orla in 2015 and that of Marlowe in 2051. It is a history of how that world became the way it is now in 2051 with a "Constellation" community of people that were chosen and grew up with millions of people following them on the network with their devices. I liked reading about both of the characters. They were likeable, regular people with regular thoughts, one who feels trapped by her lack of choice since it is determined by her followers comments and by the products that are sponsoring her and the other that just wants to make her mark in the world and become important. This was a good and kind of scary book because I hope the world doesn't become like this one. If it does then I would probably run off to Atlantis.