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After a fire rips through her loft, destroying the seven billboard-size paintings meant for her first major exhibition, a young painter is left with an impossible task: recreate the lost artworks in just three months without getting caught -- or ruin her fledgling career. Homeless and desperate, she begs her way into Pine City, an exclusive retreat in upstate New York notorious for three things: outrageous revelries, glamorous artists, and the sparkling black lake where brilliant prodigy Carey Logan drowned herself.
Taking up residence in Carey's former studio, the painter works with obsessive, delirious focus. But when she begins to uncover strange secrets at Pine City and falls hard for Carey's mysterious boyfriend, a single thought shadows her every move: What really happened to Carey Logan?
Bourland is a former freelance writer and web producer for titles at Condé Nast and Hearst, among others. She lives in Baltimore with her husband and dog.
Her second novel, Fake Like Me, is forthcoming in June 2019 from Grand Central Publishing in North America and from riverrun abroad. Fake Like Me was written with support from The Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY, where Bourland was a resident over the winter of 2017-2018.
Actress and Author of According to a Source (St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Books).
Wednesday July 3rd, 7pm, come hang with me and @babsbourland at @BookSoup to discuss her new AMAZiNG novel, #FakeLikeMe. It finally feels like summer in LA and this is the perfect beach read. Hope to see you there! https://t.co/APxdxMk9k6
Writer w/ MS ♿️Books: Flare, Corona from @boaeditions, PR for Poets from @twosylviaspress, Field Guide to the End of the World @mooncitypress.
@melissafebos Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland.
Abigail Oswald is a writer.
I fell in love with Barbara Bourland's FAKE LIKE ME back in 2019, so I jumped at the chance to ask her all my burning monarchy questions after reading her @DuttonBooks followup, THE FORCE OF SUCH BEAUTY, for @The_Millions https://t.co/FRCq3e04j0
A Refinery29 Best Book of June 2019
A Cosmopolitan June 2019 Must-Have
A Fortune Summer 2019 Travel Pick
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of Summer 2019
A CrimeReads Best Crime Books of the Year (So Far)
A Toronto Star Hot Summer Thriller Pick
A Bookish Best Cover of 2019