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Just Watch Me

A Novel

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Just Watch Me

By: Lior Torenberg
Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro Foster
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“Funny, chatty, weird, and at times unexpectedly poignant.” —Electric Literature

Fleabag meets Big Swiss in this “one-of-a-kind debut” (Cosmopolitan) about a charismatic misfit who livestreams her life for seven days and nights to raise money to save her comatose sister—a poignant and darkly funny exploration of grief, forgiveness, and redemption.

Dell Danvers is barely keeping it together. She’s behind on rent for her bathroom-less studio apartment (formerly a walk-in closet); she’s being plagued by perpetual stomach pain; and her younger sister, Daisy, is in a coma at a hospital that wants to pull the plug. Freshly unemployed and subsisting on selling plant propagations to trust-fund kids, Dell impulsively starts a twenty-four-hour livestream under the username mademoiselle_dell to fundraise for private life support for Daisy.

Dell is her stream’s dungeon master, banishing those who don’t abide by her terms and steadily rising up the platform’s ranks with her sympathetic story and angry-funny screen presence. Once she discovers she has a talent for eating spicy food, her streaming fame explodes as her pepper consumption escalates from jalapeño to ghost pepper to the hottest pepper on earth: the Caroline Reaper. Dell is finally good at something—but as her behavior becomes riskier and a shadowy troll threatens to expose her dark past, Dell must reckon with what her digital life ignores, and what real redemption means.

Narrated in seven taut chapters, one for each day of Dell’s livestreams, Just Watch Me careens through a week in the life of this misguided striver with a heart of gold. Voyeuristic and visceral, audacious and outrageous, Lior Torenberg’s debut is both a “captivating” (The Chicago Review of Books) tragicomedy about the internet economy and a surreptitiously moving tale about the desire to be watched—and the terror of being seen. Coming of Age Dark Humor Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Funny
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I loved the flawed main character here, she is problematic yes but you do end up rooting for her. Devoured in 2 days, had no idea where the book was going, it felt like a fever dream of a livestream, one of my favorites so far this year.

Loved this!

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I couldn't stop listening to this! It was funny, stressful, and unlike anything I've ever read. The main character is kind of a terrible person but you can't help feeling bad for her. I thought the bittersweet ending was perfect.

Unique, funny, and sad

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Great story, you have a young lady you is truly just crying for help after what has happened to her. It's easier to tell a story and dream!

Someone looking for help

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Wayyy, too old. If this is what life is actually like for 20 somethings in 2026, I'm so glad I'm not 20 something. This was depressing and weird and made me so glad I grew up in decades ago without social media, live streaming and they/them pronouns. The narrator is good tho. Younger people who can relate to these things will probably like it.

I'm too old for this

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