'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
In the pursuit of fame, how do you know when you've gone too far?
When Cass - a thirty-something, promising, 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, which relegates her from rising star
in New York to a nobody on her best friend's sofa in L.A. As she
comes to terms with the extent of her failure, she is forced to
question who she is without the thing that has always defined her:
her art. So she fills the days by stalking her playwright nemesis,
of whom she is excruciatingly envious, and getting pulled into the
orbit of the charismatic but manipulative filmmaker next door. As
Cass becomes increasingly involved with her neighbour and the group
of pugilistic teenage girls she's documenting, Cass begins to dream
of a comeback. But when the film spins dangerously out of control,
Cass is once again forced to reckon with her ambition, and her
rage. 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
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