Innocents and Others

"Dana Spiotta’s fearless, ambitious new novel explores our ongoing obsession with fame and technological change. Meadow Mori and Carrie Wexler are childhood friends raised on the fringes of Hollywood. Both become filmmakers — Meadow a documentarian and Carrie taking the more commercial route. Also central to the story is Jelly, a lonely, vulnerable woman with an unusual approach to phone sex who agrees to be the subject of one of Meadow’s documentaries — a choice she comes to regret. Throughout this complicated and important book, Spiotta reminds us to wonder what’s “real” and what’s constructed by visible or invisible others."

"I've been meaning to read Dana Spiotta for years, and I'm so glad I finally did: "Innocents and Others" is terrific."