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Funny You Should Ask Elissa Sussman
352 pages | Published by Dell
The Set Up: Chani is hired to write a profile on her celebrity hall pass, Gabe. The offer is a dream come true, and what should have been a few hours of questions turns into a weekend that Chani will never forget. The profile is a hit, giving Chani a solid career and boosting Gabe’s stardom. But ten years later, when Gabe’s PR team requests that they do a second interview Chani wants to say no - but her desire for answers about what happened all those years ago is strong.
I know this book came out in 2022 but it is so 1989TV vault track coded!! “Slut!”!! Now That We Don’t Talk!!! Is It Over Now?!!! My mind was spinning the whole time with different lyrics.
At the start, I was worried I was going to find Chani annoyingly naive, but the more I read, the more realistic she became to me. She acted the exact way I think most of us would if we were suddenly thrown into the world of our celebrity crushes. It was that dream scenario most people have probably fantasized about at some point, but Elissa Sussman definitely didn’t leave out the negatives - like the sexism Chani faced, or the lack of privacy those in the public eye have to deal with.
The structure was PERFECT. I loved alternating between then - what Chani wrote, what other people were writing, and what actually happened - and the present day. I definitely thought the ending was a bit rushed but the underlying tension between Chani and Gabe was SO good.
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