Social Creature

Social Creature

Tara Isabella Burton

#6791 of 8,085 books · #2211 in Crime & Thriller

Shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel (2018).

Social Creature was named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and NPR. They go through both bottles of champagne right there on the High Line, with nothing but the stars over them... They drink and Lavinia tells Louise about all the places they will go together, when they finish their stories, when they are both great writers-to Paris and to Rome and to Trieste... Lavinia will never go. She is going to die soon. Louise has nothing. Lavinia has everything. After a chance encounter, the two spiral into an intimate, intense, and possibly toxic friendship. A Talented Mr. Ripley for the digital age, this seductive story takes a classic tale of obsession and makes it irresistibly new.