Five-Star Stranger
About This Book
Kat Tang's debut novel is set in the world of the Rental Stranger app, where people can hire a companion to play a part in their lives: a pretend fiancé, a wingman, even an extra mourner at a funeral. Would you pay someone to be the best man at your wedding, a stand-in brother, or a husband? In a time when online ratings decide everything, the narrator is one of the app's top-rated performers. He is known only as Stranger. Stranger moves through New York City in the guises his clients request, and he always keeps a professional distance. His longest-running role is as father to a young girl. When a nosy client threatens to disrupt that arrangement, he is forced to face how attached he has become to his pretend daughter and her mother, and to the painful past behind it. The novel looks at relationships turned into a commodity in the gig economy, at loneliness in a hyperconnected age, and at the danger of asking for what we want from people unable to give it. It follows a man who learns who he is by spending his days as everyone but himself, and who must reckon with the abandonment that shaped his life.
ISBN: 9781668050149
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