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    "description": "<p><span><strong>A dazzling, razor-sharp debut novel about a woman whose obsession with the beautiful actress on her block drives her to the edge. In this superb new psychological thriller, an unraveling woman becomes fixated on her neighbor&mdash;the beautiful, successful actress.&nbsp;</strong><br /><br />Trapped in a rundown apartment and dead-end job, the unnamed narrator is unhappily childless and recently separated. She can&rsquo;t help noticing with wry irony that the actress, meanwhile, has her face on the side of every bus, a gleaming brownstone, a handsome husband, and three beautiful children, including a baby. Though they live just a few doors apart, the two women are separated by a chasm of professional success and personal fulfillment.<br /><br />Obsessed with her collapsed marriage, her relationship-ending infertility, the daily injustices she suffers at the hands of her expensive and exhausting city, and, most of all, with her movie-star neighbor, the narrator initially seems bitter but benign. Yet, as late summer turns to fall, she becomes increasingly unhinged&mdash;and, when an interaction with the actress at the annual block party takes a disastrous turn, what began as an innocent preoccupation spirals quickly, and lethally, into a dark and irretrievable madness.<br /><br />Witty, playful, and searingly sharp,&nbsp;<em>Looker</em>&nbsp;is an enormously entertaining debut that is part tightly coiled Hitchcockian thriller and part sendup of those living their best lives in the post-gentrified, Instagram-ready city. Driven by a fresh, astonishing, and fearlessly original voice, this slender novel packs a powerful punch.</span><span>&nbsp;</span></p>",
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