I Met Someone

Bruce Wagner

Mar 2016 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

I Met Someone is the story of Academy Award–winning actress Dusty Wilding, her wife Allegra, a long-lost daughter, and the unspeakable secret hidden beneath the glamour of their lavish, carefully calibrated celebrity life. After Allegra suffers a miscarriage, Dusty embarks on a search for the daughter she lost at age sixteen, and uncovers the answer to a question that has haunted her for decades. With masterful suspense, Bruce Wagner moves among the perspectives of his characters, revealing their individual trauma and the uncanny connections to one another’s past lives. I Met Someone plummets the reader down a rabbit hole of the human psyche, with Wagner’s remarkable insights into our collective obsession with great wealth and fame, and surprises with unimaginable plot turns and unexpected fate. Alternately tender, shocking, and poetic, this is Wagner’s most captivating and affecting novel yet.

Ratings and reviews

It's not Dead Stars, but when it kicks in it's harder to put down than a leprotic lesbic Leprechaun on life support. Savage and subtle study of women who love women almost as much as they love fame, drugs and money. The main characters and their male counterparts are identical to my dear sister's criminal LGBT crime gang in Memphis, TN. Wagner probably had to take a lot of poundings at sapphic bars to write something this convincing. Our society is richer for any bruises he took. Read between the lines and appreciate a writer who spares no one.

About the author

Bruce Wagner is the author of The Empty Chair, Dead Stars, Memorial, The Chrysanthemum Palace (a PEN/Faulkner fiction award finalist), Still Holding, I’ll Let You Go, I’m Losing You, and Force Majeure. He wrote the acclaimed miniseries Wild Palms (based on his graphic novel) and Maps to the Stars, directed by David Cronenberg. Wagner lives in Los Angeles.