Baby Lewski: A Novel [9798260200049]

Overview

22 year old Baby Lewski's first week employed by celebrity gynecologist Dr. Carmine Gold is a fever-dream replete with supplement toting psychics, car crash videos, Lynchian surveillance technology, and the world's largest collection of whips, chaps, and cowboy hats - it's Didion's Play It As It Lays for the downwardly mobile.

Baby Lewski has never had a job. That is, until she accepts a role as the archival and administrative assistant to the uber-private OBGYN Carmine Gold. Starting Monday morning, Baby commutes from her childhood home in the Valley to Carmine's hidden cliff-side lair in Topanga. She is to manage his archive of Stetson hats and vintage porn while keeping up with the peculiarities of his patients. Baby quickly realizes the job entails a certain comfort with surveillance that brings a shiver up the spine of even those as online as she is. As Baby is acclimating to her new job, her boyfriend is falling under the spell of an AI-powered food delivery app, and her overbearing single mom, Laney Lewski, is preparing to be killed off her starring role in the long-running TV series On the Clock.

In the chaos of her first week on the job, Baby hardly sleeps, but she does ingest hours of short form videos, drink at a Brentwood Italian restaurant frequented by pedophiles, confront her coworker's inappropriate advances, and have sex at a Korean spa. Slowly, Baby's digital world begins to entwine with her “real life,” whatever that is. Baby Lewski is a razor-sharp and hypnotic debut novel of entrapment and hypermediation from one of our most original new voices.