LOLO

Lori “LoLo” Loew has built an empire out of being watched: a reality show, a fashion line, a brand founded entirely on scandal. When a cocaine overdose and a guilty plea land her a hundred hours of court-ordered community service at a VA hospital, she expects it to be one more storyline for her manager to spin. What she doesn’t expect is Dexter McBride, a wounded infantryman fighting to hold a steel bar over his head for three seconds at a time, or his roommate Birdsong, or the particular silence of men who have stopped performing for anyone.

What follows is a messy, funny, occasionally devastating collision between two worlds that have nothing in common except how hard both of them are trying to survive their own damage. As Lori’s manufactured life starts to come apart, tragedy on the ward forces a reckoning she never signed up for, and finds herself choosing, for the first time, between the story that made her famous and the truth underneath it.

LOLO is a sharp, dark-comic satire of celebrity culture wrapped around a genuine love story, asking what’s left of a person once the cameras stop caring.

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