Julie Chan is Dead: or that's what she needs you to think

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Julie Chan didnt mean to steal her identical twins life. She meant to call the police when she found the body. She meant to dial 911.

Except when she unlocked Chloes phone to make that call, she also unlocked Chloes emails, gaining access to her estranged sisters sponsorship deals, her followers, her wealth, her whole life.

And Julies not prepared to give it back. Not yet. After years of struggling to pay her rent, and stealing food from her miserable supermarket job to eat, it's time to have some fun. To have anything she wants.

All she has to do is keep her head down and blend in with the beautiful Belladonnas, the tribe of influencers who had welcomed Chloe in to their inner circle before she died.

So Julie's going to breathe, detox, workout. Curate each post. Filter each picture. Spend whole days filming unboxing videos. Come up with the perfect caption.

So, goodbye Julie. Love, Chloe x

But someone knows that even identical twins have their differences.

Reviews

Engrossing and diabolically fun. Zhang's wonderful debut made me cringe, laugh, and cover my eyes. I was hooked until the very last page -- Monika Kim, author of Sunday Times bestselling The Eyes are the Best Part
I devoured this sharp and wickedly funny novel about the intoxicating and corruptive promise of love and connection telegraphed by influencers. With prose that crackles off the page, Liann Zhang skewers our brave new world where everything and anything is leveraged for likes -- Ling Ling Huang, author of Natural Beauty
As mesmerizing as it is grotesque, Julie Chan is Dead exposes the rotten insides of the influencer industry with sharp insight and dark humour. It perfectly captures the absurdity of our permanently online modern age -- Sophie Wan, author of Women of Good Fortune

Author Bio

Liann Zhang is a writer, plant lover and ex-skincare blogger with a degree in Psychology and Criminology from the University of Toronto. As a Chinese-Canadian, her work is informed by themes of identity, class and race. Though usually heartfelt and humorous, her stories of late verge into horror. Julie Chan is Dead is her debut novel.