I Met Someone

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I Met Someoneis the story of an actress named Dusty Wilding, her wife Allegra, a long-lost daughter, and the secrets beneath the glamour of their lavish, yet carefully measured celebrity life. After Allegra suffers a miscarriage, Dusty embarks on a search for the daughter she lost at age sixteen and to face the question that has haunted her for decades. With masterful suspense, Bruce Wagner reveals the individual trauma and the uncanny connections of his characters and connects their intertwining pasts together.I Met Someoneplummets the reader down a rabbit hole of the human psyche. Wagner's remarkable insights into our collective obsession with great wealth and fame offers a tender, shocking, and poetic novel.

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Bruce Wagnerhas written thirteen novels and bestsellers, including the famous "Cellphone Trilogy,"I'm Losing You(PEN USA finalist),I'll Let You Go and Still Holding,Dead Stars,ROAR: American Master, The Oral Biography of Roger Orr,The Empty Chair, and the PEN/Faulkner-finalistChrysanthemum Palace. He wrote the screenplay for David Cronenberg's filmMaps to the Stars, for which Julianne Moore won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. In 1993, Wagner wrote and created the visionary mini-seriesWild Palmsfor producer Oliver Stone and co-wrote (with Ullman) three seasons of the acclaimedTracey Ullman's State of the Union. He has written essays and articles for theNew York Times,Artforumand theNew Yorker. He lives in Los Angeles.