A Star is Bored is an absolute knockout. Riotously funny and wickedly tender.' Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones and the Six'Wildly funny and irreverent... Lanes writing lifts the novel far above its gossamer Hollywood setting, suffusing [the novel] with a complex sensitivity.' The New York Times Book ReviewA hilariously heartfelt novel influenced in part by the authors time assisting Carrie Fisher.People Magazine Best Book of Summer 2020 Named a MustRead Summer book by Town & Country Named One of the 14 Best Books of Summer 2020 by Harper's Bazaar One of Library Journal's 2020 'Titles to Watch' One of the 30 Best Beach Reads According to Parade MagazineShe needs an assistant.He needs a hero.Charlie Besson is tense and sweating as he prepares for a wild job interview. His car is idling, like his life, outside the Hollywood mansion of Kathi Kannon, star of stage and screen and People magazines Worst Dressed list. She's an actress in need of assistance, and he's adrift and in need of a lifeline.Kathi is an icon, bestselling author, and awardwinning movie star, most known for her role as Priestess Talara in a blockbuster scifi film. Shes also known in another role: Outrageous Hollywood royalty. Admittedly so. Famously so. Chaotically so, as Charlie quickly discovers.Charlie gets the job, and his threeyear odyssey is filled with latenight shopping sprees, lastminute trips to see the aurora borealis, and an initiation to that most sacred of Hollywood tribes: the personal assistant. But Kathi becomes much more than a boss, and as their friendship grows Charlie must make a choice. Will he always be on the sidelines of life, assisting the great forces that be, or can he step into his own life's leading role?Laughoutloud funny, and searingly poignant, Byron Lane's A Star is Bored is a novel that, like the star at its center, is enchanting and joyous, heartbreaking and hopeful.
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