Exalted, Anna Dorn
Exalted, Anna Dorn
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Exalted
A Novel

Author: Anna Dorn

Narrator: Tara Marie Kirk

Unabridged: 9 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/09/2022

Categories: Fiction, Lgbtq+, Satire


Synopsis

Emily Forrest runs Exalted, the hottest astrology account on Instagram, from her studio apartment in Los Angeles. Burned out on meme-making and listicles, Emily's passion for astrology is waning despite her gift for deciphering the signs, until she comes across a birth-chart that could potentially change her mind. Beau Rubidoux's planets are aligned, each paired with its optimum sign—his chart is exalted. She decides that Beau, a well-connected photographer in Echo Park, could potentially be the love of her life and help her fulfill her true destiny: to be a star.

Meanwhile in Riverside, Dawn Webster has been dumped once again. At forty-eight, she is forced to return to the same restaurant where she started waiting tables at eighteen. With no girlfriend, no career, and her only son gone to Hollywood, the once-vivacious Dawn is aimless and alone. She guzzles cheap champagne and checks Exalted to feel seen. She is a fiery Leo, and one day she will get her due.

Alternating between Emily and Dawn's points of view, Exalted is a deliciously dark novel that explores desire, the projection of our need for love, and what we're really searching for when we keep scrolling. Anna Dorn's signature wit and biting social commentary takes listeners across Southern California until Emily and Dawn's shocking connection is finally revealed.

About Anna Dorn

Anna Dorn is a writer living in Los Angeles. A former criminal defense attorney, her article on juvenile life without parole was cited by Justice Sotomayor in Jones v. Mississippi. She has written about culture for LA Review of Books, the Hairpin, and Vice Magazine. She is the author of the novel Vagablonde and the memoir Bad Lawyer.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sunny

Psychosis is sooo important for a bitch like me (gemini and cancer stellium)......more

Don’t ya just LOVE when a book comes into your life out of the blue and it ends up becoming a favorite? Like, read-in-one-sitting favorite? Exalted is exactly that for me. I must admit maybe I’m a little biased: I’m very much into astrology. I know my entire chart: my houses and placements and degre......more

Goodreads review by Jan

THE TWIST HAD ME SCREAMING FOR DAYS. I DID NOT COME HERE FOR THIS BUT I WAS ALLLLL IN 😂😂......more

Goodreads review by Zoe

imagine me finishing this on a flight. imagine. im gagged. wild. truly had no clue what was going to happen next. obsessed......more

Goodreads review by Anna

demented................more