one woman multiple personas but which one is telling the truth beautiful damaged destructive meet alexa w a brilliant yet darkly self aware young woman whose chaotic life is manipulated and controlled by a series of alternate personalities only three people know about their existence her shrink daniel her stepmother anna and her enigmatic best friend ella the perfect trio of trust when ella gets a job at a high end gentleman s club she catches the attention of its shark like owner and is gradually drawn into his inner circle as alexa s world becomes intimately entangled with ella s she soon finds herself the unwitting keeper of a nightmarish secret with no one to turn to and lives at stake she follows ella into london s cruel underbelly on a daring rescue mission threatened and vulnerable alexa will discover whether her multiple personalities are her greatest asset or her most dangerous obstacle electrifying and breathlessly compulsive the eighth girl is an omnivorous examination of life with mental illness and the acute trauma of life in a misogynist world with bingeable prose and a clinician s expertise chung s psychological debut deftly navigates the swirling confluence of identity innocence and the impossible fracturing weights that young women are forced to carry causing us to question does the truth lead to self discovery or self destruction
maxine mei fung chung
william morrow
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