Social Engagement

<p><strong>If you're looking for a page-turner with some bite this one's for you. --theSkimm</strong></p><p><strong>Millennial wedding culture gets a much-needed skewering in this alternately light and biting novel. </strong>-- <strong><em>Vogue</em></strong></p><p><strong>A razor-sharp and darkly humorous debut novel exploring millennial wedding culture class and relationships all filtered through the ever-present lens of social media. </strong></p><p>In an opulent honeymoon suite in Watch Hill Rhode Island's most desirable wedding venue 29-year-old Callie Holt is spending her wedding night lying in a bathtub shoveling down a pizza; her expensive white dress now splattered with sauce and her groom passed out in the next room. With her seven-hour-old marriage already imploded Callie turns to the place of record - her phone - sifting through the photographic evidence of the past year to pinpoint where it all went wrong.</p><p>Could it have started when Callie moved in with her best friend Virginia Murphy in the swanky Upper East Side pied-à-terre for which Virginia's parents foot the bill? Or when Virginia's irritatingly attractive cousin (and Callie's secret ex) Ollie returned from pursuing his photography career abroad throwing a wrench in Callie's relationship with her kind (if a bit dim) finance bro boyfriend Whit? Or was the true turning point when Callie stumbled upon a dark secret lurking in the Murphys' well-heeled past one with the potential to upend everything Callie knows about the people she considers her second family?</p><p>Over the course of one wedding-filled year all these long-simmering secrets and resentments will come bubbling to the surface leading to a reckoning that will strip Callie and everyone around her down to their most gruesomely real filter-free selves. As Callie attends wedding after wedding getting tagged in post after post she begins to contemplate--and actualize through her own art--the gulf between the true selves of the people around her and the selves they present on their screens.</p>