{"id":3590,"date":"2024-04-18T15:01:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T15:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2024-05-12T21:36:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T21:36:23","slug":"the-most-famous-girl-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3590","title":{"rendered":"The Most Famous Girl in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not every protagonist who introduces herself to readers while in the middle of getting an intimate area waxed, but Rose Aslani isn\u2019t every protagonist. She\u2019s the quintessential new New York Gen Zer: being worked to death in media, living with a strange roommate who seems only vaguely familiar with being clothed, and fielding suggestions from her parents like, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you email the New York Times and ask them for a job?\u201d All the while, Rose is nursing an obsession with the titular Most Famous Girl in the World, Poppy Hastings. A couple of years ago, Poppy\u2019s fake-socialite scam was exposed–by Rose–and she\u2019s just gotten out of prison for those exploits, but it\u2019s too little for her nemesis. Rose knows that Poppy\u2019s scamming was the tip of a criminal iceberg, and she stalks the woman, who flaunts her zany, fibbing ways to every internet hack who\u2019ll listen. The public can\u2019t get enough of it, while Rose is accused at work of paranoia, dropped by a succession of therapists, and falling deeper into reliance on booze and pills. Then the journalist begins to receive texts that help her in her quest to take Poppy down, a quest on which she\u2019s aided by dishy FBI agent Simon. The story takes on some serious themes, notably Rose\u2019s lifelong feeling of alienation as the daughter of immigrants from Iran who love her (as will readers) but \u201c[love] the idea of passing more.\u201d Closing with several shocking twists, this is one for women who\u2019ve had it and fans of the true-crime wave of podcasts and documentaries about scammers.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not every protagonist who introduces herself to readers while in the middle of getting an intimate area waxed, but Rose Aslani isn\u2019t every protagonist. She\u2019s the quintessential new New…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[133,112,53],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-absurdist","tag-satire","tag-women"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Famous-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Famous.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}