{"id":12965,"date":"2024-04-19T10:16:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T14:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fosterlibraries.org\/?p=12965"},"modified":"2024-04-19T10:16:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T14:16:46","slug":"we-play-ourselves-by-jen-silverman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/?p=12965","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We Play Ourselves&#8221; by Jen Silverman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial;\">Audrey recommends:<\/strong> <em>We Play Ourselves<\/em> by Jen Silverman<p><strong>Genre:\u00a0<\/strong>Contemporary fiction<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><p><strong>Reading level:<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial;\">Adult<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><p><strong>Summary:<\/strong> Cass, an up-and-coming playwright, moves across the country to reinvent herself after her latest flop leads to a social media implosion.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><p><strong>Audrey says:<\/strong> This book is all about the complicated relationships between artists: infatuation, jealousy, pity, worship, betrayal. Cass idolizes an older director, demonizes her younger-but-more-successful colleague, obsesses over her filmmaker neighbor, dismisses the teens acting in the film. By the end of the story, all these relationships have flipped around, and Cass&#8217;s truest friend might be her agent&#8217;s secretary, who she only knows in the form of brief phone conversations. This novel untangles the conflated webs of fame, love, success, and happiness. I find it a must-read for creative types.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12967\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cass, an up-and-coming playwright, moves across the country to reinvent herself after her latest flop leads to a social media implosion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_recurring":false,"_piecal_recurring_interval":1,"_piecal_recurring_frequency":"","_piecal_recurring_exact_position":false,"_piecal_recurring_end":"","_piecal_color":"","_piecal_text_color":"","_piecal_global_color_master":false,"_piecal_rsets":"[]","_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,16,23],"class_list":["post-12965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staff-recs","tag-adult","tag-audrey-recs","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}