Namedropper A Novel

Meet Viva Cohen: her bedroom walls are plastered with posters of silver-screen legends, and underneath her school uniform she wears vintage thigh-high stockings. Her best friends are a drugged-out beauty queen and an aging rock star. She lives in London with her gay uncle Manny.A bitingly funny and fiercely intelligent first novel,Namedroppertakes you on a rowdy romp from London to Los Angeles, where Viva and her two best friends search for love, experience, and Jack Nicholson. It's a wild ride as she uncovers the icon in every person she meets.

Emma Forrest began her career at sixteen, writing a pop-culture column for the London Sunday Times. She now lives in New York.