Fan Club, Erin Mayer
Fan Club, Erin Mayer
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Fan Club

Author: Erin Mayer

Narrator: Stacy Gonzalez

Unabridged: 10 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/26/2021


Synopsis

“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.

About Erin Mayer

Erin Mayer is a freelance writer and editor. Her work has appeared on Bustle, The Today Show, Man Repeller, Literary Hub, and others. A lifelong New Yorker, she now resides in Maine with her husband and her enamel pin collection. FAN CLUB is her first novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Emma

This book absolutely FLOORED me. It's going to live in my bones until the day I die. This story is such a deep, thorough, often grim and fucking spectacular examination of so many things I struggle to find words to describe; the strange hopelessness of working millennials just trying to play by the......more

Goodreads review by Carrie

Fan Club by Erin Mayer is a thriller novel. This story is for the millennial generation with the main character being of that generation dealing with the drone of day to day life. With little hope of her own happiness our narrator becomes obsessed with a celebrity, Adriana, and finds herself caught......more

Goodreads review by Amy

Do you ever finish a book and wonder what in the hell you just read? And not in a good way? That’s what happened with me here. My whole experience with this book was bizarre, on the one hand I listened to it in a day so there was definitely something compulsive about it but on the other hand it wasn......more