None of This Is True

About the book

Alix Summer is a popular podcaster celebrating her forty-fifth birthday when she encounters Josie Fair, a woman born on the same day in the same hospital. Josie approaches Alix soon after, pitching herself as the subject for a new documentary series about a life on the cusp of radical change. As they record, Josie reveals unsettling secrets about her marriage to an older man and her strange family dynamics. Alix eventually realizes Josie is an unreliable narrator who has inserted herself dangerously into Alix’s domestic life, leading to disappearances and multiple violent deaths.

Fans of psychological thrillers and true-crime media read this book to analyze the blurred lines between factual reporting and manufactured drama. It serves readers who enjoy dissecting the motives of manipulative characters and seeing how parasocial relationships spiral into obsession. The reader finishes the story with a skeptical perspective on the ethics of digital storytelling and the realization that personal narratives can be weaponized to hide predatory behavior.

Details

Published

2023

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

ISBN

9781668024287

Language

EN