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A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, practices, high priests, and prophets of our supposedly post-religion age. 

When shy, sensitive Laura Stearns arrives at St. Dunstan’s Academy in Maine, she dreams that life there will echo her favorite novel, All Before Them, the sole surviving piece of writing by Byronic “prep school prophet” (and St. Dunstan’s alum) Sebastian Webster, who died at 19, fighting in the Spanish Civil War. She soon finds the intensity she is looking for among the insular, Webster-worshipping members of the school’s chapel choir, which is presided over by the charismatic, neurotic, overachiever Virginia Strauss. 

They go through both bottles of champagne right there on the High Line, with nothing but the stars over them.... They drink, and Lavinia tells Louise about all the places they will go together when they finish their stories, when they are both great writers - to Paris and to Rome and to Trieste.... Lavinia will never go. She is going to die soon. Louise has nothing. Lavinia has everything. After a chance encounter, the two spiral into an intimate, intense, and possibly toxic friendship.

A friendship to die for. A Ripley story for the Instagram age set in contemporary New York: a world at once sophisticated and sordid, irresistible and irresponsible, unforgettable yet unattainable. Louise is struggling to survive in New York; juggling a series of poorly paid jobs, renting a shabby flat, being catcalled by her creepy neighbour, she dreams of being a writer. And then one day she meets Lavinia. Lavinia who has everything - looks, money, clothes, friends, an amazing apartment...

Louise ist Ende zwanzig und kann sich gerade so in New York durchschlagen. Eines Tages begegnet sie Lavinia, die wirklich alles hat, wovon Louise nur träumen kann. Ihr glamouröses Leben teilt sie gern - auf sämtlichen sozialen Netzwerken, aber auch mit Louise. Die beiden Frauen werden unzertrennlich. Louise wird auf Partys herumgereicht, lässt sich von Lavinia einkleiden, zieht bei ihr ein - sie verfällt Lavinia und ihrer Welt. Auch wenn sie eigentlich nicht die Mittel hat, um in ihr zu bestehen. Irgendwann beginnt sie, ihre Freundin zu bestehlen.