02870cam a22003858i 4500 23465380 MeVbMML 20240522132038.0 231220s2024 nyu 000 1 eng 2023046727 9781668050149 (hardcover) 9781668054871 (softcover) 9781668050156 (paperback) 9781668050163 (ebook) DLC eng rda DLC pcc PS3620.A68457 F58 2024 813/.6 23/eng/20231220 Tang, Kat, author. 17206 Five-star stranger : a novel / Kat Tang. First Scribner hardcover edition. 2408 New York : Scribner, 2024. pages cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "Would you hire someone to be the best man at your wedding? Your stand-in brother? Your husband? In Kat Tang's exciting and resonant debut, a "Rental Stranger"-a companion hired under various guises-walks the line between personal and professional in surprising new ways. Five-Star Stranger follows a man who is a top-rated performer on the "Rental Stranger" app, where users can hire a pretend fiancé, Referred to only as Stranger, the narrator navigates New York City under the guise of the characters he plays, always maintaining a professional distance from his clients. 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-a place where users can hire a a pretend fiancé, a wingman, or an extra mourner for a funeral. Referred to only as Stranger, the narrator navigates New York City under the guise of characters he plays, always maintaining a professional distance from his clients. 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. Five-Star Stranger is a strikingly vivid novel about the commodification of relationships in a gig economy, isolation in a hyperconnected world, and the risk of asking for what we want from those who cannot give. This is the story of a man who finds out who he is by being anyone but himself"-- Provided by publisher. Psychological fiction. lcgft 856 Novels. lcgft 50 Online version: Tang, Kat. Five-star stranger First Scribner hardcover edition New York : Scribner, 2024 9781668050163 (DLC) 2023046728 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BOOK 29673 29673 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2024-05-22 27.00 0 TANG 66164 2024-05-22 2024-05-22 BOOK 1