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When Echo Blue, the most famous child star of the nineties, disappears ahead of a highly publicized television appearance on the eve of the millennium, the salacious theories instantly start swirling. Mostly, people assume Echo has gotten herself in trouble after a reckless New Year’s Eve. But Goldie Klein, an ambitious young journalist who also happens to be Echo's biggest fan, knows there must be more to the story. Why, on the eve of her big comeback, would Echo just go missing without a trace?
After a year of covering dreary local stories for Manhattan Eye, Goldie is sure this will be her big break. Who better to find Echo Blue, and tell her story the right way, than her? And so, Goldie heads to L.A. to begin a wild search that takes her deep into Echo’s complicated life in which parental strife, friend break ups, rehab stints, and bad romances abound. But the further into Echo’s world Goldie gets, the more she questions her own complicity in the young star’s demise . . . yet she cannot tear herself away from this story, which has now consumed her entirely. Meanwhile, we also hear Echo's side of things from the beginning, showing a young woman who was chewed up and spit out by Hollywood as so many are, and who may have had to pay the ultimate price.
As these young women's poignant and unexpected journeys unfold, and eventually meet, Where Are You, Echo Blue? interrogates celebrity culture, the thin line between admiration and obsession, and what it means to tell other peoples’ stories, all while ushering us on an unruly ride to find out what did become of Echo Blue.
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Release date
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780593870181
- File size: 301899 KB
- Duration: 10:28:57
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Languages
- English
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May 6, 2024
YA author Krischer (Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf) makes her adult debut with the entertaining story of a former child star and the journalist trying to track her down. Echo Blue, the daughter of movie star Jamie Blue, won an Oscar for best supporting actress in 1994, when she was 14. Fast forward five years: her career has crashed and burned, and she’s just been released from rehab for a Klonopin addiction. She makes a comeback appearance on MTV’s New Year’s Eve Y2K special, but disappears halfway through the event. Goldie Klein, an up-and-coming New York City reporter and Echo superfan, senses her big break and flies to Los Angeles in search of clues, posing as an artist to ingratiate herself with Jamie. A parallel narrative follows Echo’s rise in the early ’90s and subsequent mental health struggles. Eventually, the story lines intersect, revealing Echo’s whereabouts and her caustic perspective on celebrity culture. As Krischer makes clear in her increasingly unnerving depiction of Goldie’s fixation with Echo, the star is right to be wary of the spotlight. Equal parts intelligent and thrilling, this will have readers glued to their seats. Agent: Emily Sylvan Kim, Prospect Agency.
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