{"product_id":"9780593729175","title":"The Influencers","description":"\u003cb\u003eA social media influencer's empire is burned to the ground—literally. The top suspects? The five daughters who made her famous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As sharp as it is delicious, \u003ci\u003eThe Influencers \u003c\/i\u003eis a page-turning delight of a whodunnit as well as an incisive critique of the culture of unmitigated self-display. No one is spared—including the readers—but everyone is granted their full, complex humanity.”—Jessie Gaynor, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Glow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat do you really know about the people you’ve made famous?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mother May I” Iverson has spent the past twenty-five years building a massively successful influencer empire with endearing videos featuring her five mixed-race daughters. But the girls are all grown up now, and the ramifications of having their entire childhoods commodified start to spill over into public view, especially in light of the pivotal question: Who killed May’s newlywed husband and then torched her mansion to cover it up?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eApril is a businesswoman feuding with her mother over intellectual property; twins June and July are influencers themselves, threatening to overtake May’s spotlight; January is a theater tech who steers clear of her mother and the limelight; and the youngest . . . well, March has somehow completely disappeared. As the days pass post-murder, everyone has an opinion—the sisters, May, a mysterious “friend of the family,” and the collective voice of the online audience watching the family’s every move—with suspicion flying every direction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA campy and escapist exploration of race, gender, sexuality, and class, \u003ci\u003eThe Influencers\u003c\/i\u003e is an evisceration of influencer culture and how alienating traditional expectations can be, ripe for the current moment when the first generation of children made famous by their parents are, now, all grown up—and looking for retribution.","brand":"Anna-Marie McLemore","offers":[{"title":"Random House Publishing Group |  Hardback  |  2025-04-15","offer_id":46391303700735,"sku":"9780593729175","price":37.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_d5768b0c-4f30-4b6d-9813-20e14695c2c0.jpg?v=1733601050","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780593729175","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}