Bright Little Girls

A wannabe author. A narcissistic musician. A serial killer. An average American girl. Someone tells the story. Someone is the story. Someone steals the story. Someone won’t make it out of the story. Most importantly, someone is always watching. Some watch to help; some watch to hurt. Some watch to be inspired; some watch because they just can’t tear their eyes away.

Eliane Pangolin isn’t like anyone her mysterious follower has ever met. She’s a 27-year-old struggling writer and wannabe dancer fighting an uphill battle with obsessive-compulsive disorder. When she isn’t defying a restraining order by continually writing letters to an old friend, she’s trying to navigate feelings of both betrayal and beguile toward her lifelong male best friend. She lies underneath fake palm trees in her living room with sunglasses on, but also has an old soul that she could swear once rubbed elbows with the Fitzgerald’s on a beautiful Parisian street. If she isn’t in dance class or therapy, she can almost always be found lying in the grass where Zelda Fitzgerald drew her last breath, outside a sanitarium in the mountains of North Carolina where she grew up. Broken and brilliant, trying to navigate mental illness, toxic love and the untimely murder of someone close, readers will love following Eliane just as much as her narrator in the shadows.

A story about art, obsession, guilt, crime and lust for…everything, Bright Little Girls is, at its core, about learning to cope by finding the self, the most elusive character of all. A journey through love and loss, to the great beyond and back, this story will seep into the soul and then ask it to come out and run free — for all to see.