Whoever You Are, Honey

A Novel

De: Olivia Gatwood

Narrado por: Olivia Gatwood

What happens when what was once considered dystopia is now reality?

This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women shape themselves beneath the gaze of love, friendship, and the algorithm—“a fever dream for the AI age” (People).

“This book reads like a thriller, but it's also a tender and searching exploration of what it means to inhabit a female body.”—Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love

A TIME AND VOGUE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Mitty can’t quite make out the expression on Lena’s face, but she doesn’t look distressed. She looks like nothing at all. She looks like the beginning, before thoughts, a white hallway with no doors, a room so long your voice disappears before it can echo.

On the Santa Cruz, California, waterfront, every house is a flawless glass monolith. Except for one. In a dilapidated bungalow, Mitty and her elderly roommate, Bethel, are the oddball pair who represent the last vestiges of a free-spirited town taken over by the tech elite. But their lives are about to be forever changed when a new couple, Sebastian and Lena, move in next door.

Sebastian is a renowned tech founder and Lena is his spellbindingly perfect girlfriend. But Lena has secrets; she feels uneasy about her oddly spotty memory and is growing increasingly wary of the way Sebastian controls their relationship. Mitty is also hiding something, and the way Lena appears to float through her luxurious life draws Mitty inexorably into her orbit. As the two women begin to form a close friendship, they are finally forced to face their pasts—and the urgent truths that could change everything.

Showcasing Olivia Gatwood’s talent as an essential author for our hyper-digital age, Whoever You Are, Honey is a gripping, seductive, and prescient novel that dissects relationships between women and examines how striving for perfection and desirability plays out in spaces where technology and power intersect.

©2024 Olivia Gatwood (P)2024 Random House Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“The twin themes of women’s loneliness and desire are the timeless beating hearts of Olivia Gatwood’s debut novel, propped up by of-the-moment ruminations on queerness and artificial intelligence.”—Vogue, “The Best Books of 2024 So Far”

“This debut, written with traces of Steinbeck and The Stepford Wives, is a meditative novel about femininity, friendship, and aging. . . . An erotic thriller.”—The New York Times Book Review

“This dark debut novel explores the masks we wear as women. . . . This is like Stepford Wives but includes artificial intelligence and tech shit. I didn’t know a novel about technology and power could be so damn passionate.”—Betches, “Books to Read if You Love Sally Rooney and Being a Sad Literary Girlie”

Interesting…..but kept me listening

A somewhat abrupt open ended ending…. Leaves a lot to consider.
Also at times I wondered where the story was going and then it would come together.

I don’t regret listening to, it was good….just wished I would have caught on a flash sale for under $5 rather than using a credit,

I will say the narration (by the author) is FANTASTIC.
That made it worth it.

Love the writing!

I wasn’t sure where this story was going, but the author hooked me with her poetic writing.

This book will stay with me! Beautiful story.

This was my first time reading Olivia Gatwood’s work and it was beautiful. I loved the way the mysteries of the story unfolded and that it also had such a focus on what it means to be a woman throughout. The writing was so perfectly descriptive that it was easy to imagine everything and to understand and relate to how the characters were feeling. Olivia’s narration was great as well. I loved her voice. I’ll be reading her poetry next and I definitely look forward to more novels by Olivia. I don’t usually leave written reviews but this book absolutely deserved one.

Beautiful Debut

Longtime fan of Gatwood’s work, and this novel does not disappoint. Every book should be written by a poet, the attention to detail is astonishing and manages to capture both the romantic and visceral elements of the mundane. Great story, even better narration.

What refreshing beauty

I first found introduced to Olivia Gatwood through her poetry, -and my gosh, cannot woman write.
The story had me by the throat by the heart and by the hips . It was as if a fabric blindfold that was unknowingly at VR headset had wrapped itself around my imagination beautifully surrounding my vision in the world that Olivia spoke. This story is everything without being too much.
It is a perfect cup of coffee, rich and bold brewed to perfection handed to you a sleeve, already casing the warm liquid inside while leaving room at the top for the reader to fill it to the brim with their own perseverance and imprints. How I sorely wish they were more books like this.

Left speechless

I don’t have the words to describe this book. Just read it! So so good

awful!!!

To be fair I only made it about 30 mins but once she started describing 'acne scars in her husband's butt crack' I decided this is NOT FOR ME!