Isabel Banta

I didn't like to perform. I liked to be loved. It is 1997, and Amber Young has received a life-changing call. It's a chance thousands of girls would die for : the opportunity to join a girl group in Los Angeles and escape her small town. She quickly finds herself in the orbits of fellow rising stars Gwen, a driven singer-dancer, and Wes, a member of the biggest boy band in the world. As Amber embarks on a solo career and her fame intensifies, she increasingly finds herself reduced to a body, a voice, an object.
Surrounded by the wrong kind of people and driven by a desire for recognition and success, for love and sex, for agency and connection, Amber comes of age at a time when the kaleidoscope of public opinion can distort everything, and one mistake can shatter a career...