U Up?, Catie Disabato
U Up?, Catie Disabato
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U Up?

Author: Catie Disabato

Narrator: Krystal Hammond

Unabridged: 9 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/29/2022


Synopsis

A New York Times Best Mystery Book of 2021

A young woman investigates her best friend's disappearance while navigating codependent friendships, toxic exes, and witchy rituals.

Eve has a carefully curated online life, works occasionally, and texts constantly with her best friend, Ezra. Basically, she is an archetypal LA millennial. She has also been carrying on a year-long conversation with her deceased friend Miggy over text. But when Ezra goes missing on the anniversary weekend of Miggy's death, Eve feels like her world is shattering.

Over a frantic weekend Eve investigates Ezra's disappearance, scouring social media for clues, while drowning her anger and anxiety in drinks, drugs, and spiritual cleansing. Eve starts to spiral as her friends try to convince her that she's overreacting, and ghosts—both real and metaphorical—continue to haunt her. When she uncovers clues to a life Ezra kept hidden, Eve starts to question how much she really knows about her best friend . . . and herself.

In U Up? Catie Disabato holds a mirror to the ways the phantom selves we create online permeate our emotional lives and hide our worst traits from everyone, including ourselves.

About Catie Disabato

Catie Disabato's first novel, The Ghost Network, was deemed "a smart and thorny debut" that "reveals treasures" to readers, according to the New York Times. Disabato has written essays and criticism for outlets including the LAist, Buzzfeed, and LA Weekly. She lives in Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Janet on March 02, 2021

When I'm sick, it's hard to find a book to settle into. I go off my normal dense, tense, language oriented normal and find myself in new terrain. So I was extremely glad my husband had just bought Catie Disabato's new novel U Up? It absolutely hit the spot. This book is the tale of a queer L.A. mill......more

Goodreads review by Emily on January 02, 2022

it’s about sex and grief and forgiveness and anger and growth and friendship and los angeles and ghosts, and it’s about love. i loved it hugely. the narration is frenzied and feverish and glowing like driving into the sun in the late afternoon. i feel so so grateful to have gotten to float through t......more

Goodreads review by Erica on December 06, 2020

U Up? is one of those books that does a fantastic job of looking at friendship from a millennial point of view-a highlight were the text messages, as that is how millennials love to communicate NOW, and how texting as communication can bolster or interfere with a friendship. I enjoyed reading about......more