{"product_id":"books-we-play-ourselves-by-jen-silverman","title":"We Play Ourselves","description":"'As funny as it's intellectual, this page-turner about crashing and burning is spot-on about ambition, infatuation, theatre, film, ethics, teens, and everything else.' Emma Donoghue, author of Room   'Witty...Earnest...Laugh-out-loud...Pitch-perfect' New York Times  When Cass - a thirty something year old queer playwright - receives a prestigious award, it seems as though her career is finally taking off. That is until she finds herself at the centre of a searing public shaming. Fleeing New York, Cass moves to L.A. to start anew. Once there, she is pulled into the orbit of her charismatic neighbour, a filmmaker who's making an ethically murky documentary inspired by a group of teenage girls and their underground fight club. But just as Cass begins to dream of a comeback, the past starts to catch up with her and she is forced once more to reckon with her ambition and the chaos it creates. We Play Ourselves is a darkly funny novel about the cost of making art, and the art of making enemies.   'Funny, sharp, modern - this is an excellent debut novel. Its bold, edgy, strange heroine has adventures and misadventures, screws up again and again, but somehow won my love. I couldn't put this book down.' Weike Wang, PEN\/Hemingway-award winning author of Chemistry","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53675226595601,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781838954338.jpg?v=1781539152","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-we-play-ourselves-by-jen-silverman","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}