Anna Dorn

Emily Forrest runs the hottest astrology account on Instagram, @Exalted, but astrology is on the outs, and her finances are dwindling. Emily doesn't even really believe in astrology, despite her gift for deciphering the moons and signs, until she comes across a birth-chart that could potentially change her mind. Beau Rubidoux's chart has all the planets in their right places--it is exalted. She decides that Tres could potentially be the love of her life and begins following him around Los Angeles in hopes of getting close to him and catching his eye. Meanwhile, in Riverside, CA, Dawn Webster has been dumped once again. At 48, she is forced to return to the diner where she started waiting tables at 18. With no girlfriend, no career, and her only son gone to Hollywood, the once-vivacious Dawn is aimless and alone. Persona non-grata at the local lesbian bar, she guzzles cheap champagne and peruses @Exalted to feel seen. When Dawn spots her son's estranged father one day during a work break, she decides to track him down and reshape the flailing course of her life. Told from Emily and Dawn's alternating points of view, Exalted is a deliciously dark novel that explores desire, the projection of love, and what we're really searching for when we keep scrolling. Anna Dorn's signature wit and biting social commentary takes readers across Southern California until Emily and Dawn's shocking connection is finally revealed.

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"borderline personality disorder." … I said to her, Borderline what? Borderline fabulous?" 

I like that astrology transcends gender, class, and race. The stars don't care that I grew up in a shitty suburb and didn't go to college. The point is I'm a Scorpio, the same sign as Winona Ryder. 

I officially had no one asking me to do things: a dream.

And I was relieved. I officially had no one asking me to do things: a dream.

I haven't had sex with someone other than myself in... well, time is a construct.

She is fun, which is my second favorite quality in a woman, after independently wealthy.

I have hooked up with women, obviously--Im a coastal urban millennial 

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