Tell Me My Name

A near-future, gender-flipped retelling of The Great Gatsby, Tell Me My Name is a dark, seductive literary novel about the dangerous allure of wealth, fame, and belonging.

Fern has spent eighteen years being good: a dutiful daughter, a loyal friend, an invisible girl living safely at the edge of other people’s lives. On Commodore Island, where the wealthy shelter from a world of climate disasters, mass displacement, and widening inequality, she has always been close enough to see privilege, but never quite close enough to touch it.

Then Ivy Avila arrives.

Fresh out of treatment and retreating from a lifetime in the spotlight, the world-famous actress and singer chooses Fern as her confidante. Soon Fern is swept into Ivy’s intoxicating orbit of extravagant parties, dangerous secrets, and obsessive desire.

As the summer grows hotter and Ivy’s glittering world begins to fracture, Fern finds herself becoming more than an observer. But in a place built on performance, privilege, and lies, it is increasingly difficult to know what is real—or where Ivy’s story ends and Fern’s begins.

For readers of Emma Cline’s The Girls, Tell Me My Name is a fever dream of female desire and power, exploring what it means to come of age in a world that demands everything from young women—and the consequences of refusing to remain a supporting character in someone else’s story.