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BEHIND THE GLASS, EVERYTHING IS MORE BEAUTIFUL In Santa Cruz, every house looks the same and through the glass, its inhabitants are as pristine as the insides. Not so for Mitty and Bethel, fifty decades between them, mushrooms growing out of the wall they are the last vestiges of a town housing the tech elite. And what Mitty sees in the dollhouse next door is Lena, the perfect woman. Lena is different and she knows it. Reliant on her entrepreneur boyfriend Sebastian, her life is small and isolating for someone bathed in wealth. But when she meets her unusual neighbours, she takes to Mitty instantly, finding a kindred spirit. And in this salt-blasted town, a friendship will become an obsession, minds and bodies will betray, and love will take one of them to place from which they will never return. Thrilling, prescient and poetic, WHOEVER YOU ARE HONEY is a blazing debut that dissects perfection, examines how women are made and explodes the intersection of love, obsession and violence.
About the author
Olivia Gatwood is the author of two poetry collections, New American Best Friend and Life of the Party. Her debut novel, Whoever You Are, Honey, was released in 2024, which she will also adapt for the screen. She has received international recognition for her poetry, writing workshops, and work as a Title IX Compliant educator in sexual assault prevention and recovery. Her performances have been featured on HBO, HuffPost, MTV, VH1, and the BBC, and more. Her poems have appeared in The Poetry Foundation, Sundance Film Festival, Lambda Literary, and The Missouri Review. Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, she lives in California.
