Tell Me I'm an Artist: A Novel

"Joey, a sophomore from a lower-class family, feels out of her depth at art school, where wealth seems necessary for self-realization. As she tries to avoid getting roped into fixing her sister’s and mother’s problems, she procrastinates on an experimental-film assignment – hilariously, she has decided to remake the movie Rushmore without ever having seen it. Told through fragmented scenes interspliced with handwritten notes, Google searches (“how do you know what you like,” “cheap dinner that isn’t beans”) and Rushmore rewrites, Tell Me I’m an Artist perfectly probes the collision of financial insecurity and artistic self-doubt."