Smashing
by Brooke Berman

Twenty-one-year-old It-girl Abby and her plucky best friend, Clea, embark on a spur-of-the-moment revenge trip to London — Abby, in pursuit of the young novelist who has cannibalized her in his literary debut and Clea desperately seeking Madonna.

"… Brooke Berman's delicious literary comedy … Twisted obsession is just one of the themes that Berman navigates with skill and humor in this sharp satire.

In addition, her eloquent, self-aware characters mull over issues of hero-worship and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, as it relates to fact and fiction: Seeing oneself refracted in a novel can lead to an identity crisis for the subject … Berman's tale, which wriggles between past, present and the sub-Nabokovian world of the book … this hip skewering of sexual and literary politics is more than just a pose."

—David Cote, Time Out New York