02189cam a2200301 4500 1650538420 TxAuBib 20241008120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781797175454 1797175459 0030862989 Axis360 TxAuBib Tang, Kat. Five-star Stranger [Boundless]. Unabridged. Simon & Schuster, 2024. An exciting and “inventive” (HuffPost) debut novel about a top-rated man on the Rental Stranger app—a place where users can hire a pretend fiancé, a wingman, or companion of any kind—who finds out who he is by being anyone but himself.Would you hire someone to be the best man at your wedding? Your stand-in brother? The father to your child? In an age where online ratings are all-powerful, Five-Star Stranger follows the adventures of a top-rated man on the Rental Stranger app as he navigates New York City under the guise of characters he plays, always maintaining a professional distance from his clients. But, when a nosy patron threatens to upend his long-term role as father to a young girl, Stranger begins to reckon with his attachment to his pretend daughter, her mother, and his own fraught past. Now, he must confront the boundaries he has drawn and explore the legacy of abandonment that shaped his life. “A sharp page-turner about our culture’s commodification of everything” (Debutiful), Five-Star Stranger is a strikingly vivid novel about isolation in a hyperconnected world, and “what it means to love and be loved” (Rachel Khong, author of Real Americans). Format: Acoustik. FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Family Life / General; FICTION / Asian American & Pacific Islander. General Adult. Importer Version: 2016-03-11.01 Import Date: 2024-10-08 20:00:03. FICTION Literary. Fiction fast Asian American & Pacific Islander. Fiction fast Family Life General. Cihi, Julian, narrator. https://hslibrary.boundless.baker-taylor.com/Title?itemId=0030862989 TXHSP