Like Me
by Hayley Phelan
A propulsive psychological thriller that follows an aspiring model down a social-media-fuelled rabbit hole of obsession, narcissism and self-destruction.For Mickey, a struggling 20-year-old model trying to make it in Manhattan, Instagram offers a tantalizing portal into the world she wishes she inhabited. Though beautiful, cunning and well-bred, Mickey finds herself at the beginning of summer 2019 with a stalled modeling career, an escalating drinking problem, few friends (not counting the toxic men she entertains by night) and next to nothing in the bank. To numb her growing despair, Mickey spends more and more of her days maniacally refreshing her Instagram feed, where she obsessively tracks the daily comings and goings of Insta-famous model Gemma Anton. Gemma is a perfected version of Mickey. Beyond being the same age, and bearing more than a passing resemblance to one another, Gemma is living a picture-perfect life—complete with a skyrocketing career, a...