The Bored and the Beautiful by Cat Marnell

The Bored and the Beautiful by Cat Marnell

A downtown 'it' girl falls for an influential journalist who pushes her addiction issues with love, pills and headlines – to the breaking point, in the intoxicating and propulsive first novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir How to Murder Your Life.

'A HELL OF A READ' RUMAAN ALAM

'PROPULSIVE AND ELECTRIC' LYNN STEGER STRONG

Meet Dizzy Calatrava: blonde, brilliant and perpetually one cigarette away from collapse. It’s 2012 and she’s a downtown writer with a tabloid presence, a narcotics habit and a tendency to treat New York City like her own private paradise. Unreliable yet unforgettable, Dizzy pops amphetamine pills like Tic Tacs, drifting between Thai rehabs and rooftop afterparties like a sorceress in platforms, narrating the apocalypse of her thirties in prose so sparkling you can feel it burn your nose.

When Dizzy meets Editor-In-Chief, a charming, fellow media personality whose bad behavior only helps his star rise, she wonders if perhaps she’s met her true match. But is this a tale of two kindred flames igniting, or is Dizzy flying too close to the sun? The Bored and the Beautiful is a dark, feminine and salacious glimpse into the mind of a lovable protagonist who you can’t help but root for as she makes every mistake you can imagine – and probably some you can’t.

Cat Marnell is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir How to Murder Your Life. She was a beauty editor at Lucky magazine, the founding beauty director of xoJane, and wrote the Amphetamine Logic column for VICE. She lives in downtown Manhattan. The Bored and the Beautiful is her first novel.