CATIE DISABATO writes for Full Stop and New York Daily News' book blog Page Views. She has written essays for This Recording, The Millions, and The Rumpus. Her short fiction was recently featured on Joyland. After growing up in Chicago and graduating from Oberlin College, she now lives in L.A.
“A smart and thorny debut novel... Truly contemporary... The Ghost
Network presents the maze of modern culture with all its dead
ends and truncations, but reveals treasure to those who walk the
path."
—New York Times Book Review
“A nerve-jangling mash-up of conspiracy theories and ingeniously
plotted existential mystery."
—O, the Oprah Magazine, The Season's Best
“Ambitious, digressive and occasionally overstuffed, The Ghost
Network is a rewarding read — in other words, it's a rabbit hole
well worth falling down."
—Chicago Tribune
“[An] engaging debut novel."
—San Francisco Chronicle
“A high-energy, pop meta-mystery."
—Boston Globe, Summer Reading Picks
“A debut novel that is as carefully structured as it is ambitiously
inventive."
—Los Angeles Magazine, 6 Books You Need to Read This May
“Suspenseful, conspiratorial, digressive... This wildly inventive,
remarkably assured debut is entirely Disabato’s own."
—Globe and Mail (Canada)
“A bumpy, challenging narrative ride, one that’s worth taking until
the end of the line."
—KQED, Beach Reads for Rebels
“A perceptive look at celebrity and personal branding in the
digital age… The Ghost Network, like a great pop song, is an
intricate system and a lavish spectacle at the same time."
—Chicago Reader
“This novel toys with and ultimately subverts all the conventions
of its genre, and is as smart and funny as it is compelling."
—Brooklyn Magazine
“Excellent... Throughout the fanciful plot there’s something so
vividly current about Disabato’s characters...that she is revealed
to be a keen and trustworthy observer of the habits of the
young."
—Slate
“Ambitious and imaginative, The Ghost Network seamlessly blends pop
culture and conspiracy theory and philosophy."
—BuzzFeed, 17 Awesome New Books You Need To Read This Summer
“Prepare to be amazed… The Ghost Network is an enthralling
participatory experience, at once an erudite mystery and a complex
investigation on the dark side of fame and fandom."
—Bustle
“It’s exciting to read a novel with so much ambition in its
construction, but one that is simultaneously concerned with a topic
like the relationship between a female pop star and her fans,
elevating 'girl' culture to its rightful status as a matter for
thoughtful literary inquiry."
—Flavorwire, Staff Picks
“[Disabato's] writing is contemporary, and the book is not shy
about carving out its very specific niche in time, but this book is
destined to become a new classic… The Ghost Network has just the
right balance of romance, mystery, and social commentary."
—Book Riot, The Best Books of 2015
“Few first novels have ever felt so confident, ambitious,
idiosyncratic, and carefully composed... Disabato may be a fresh
face in the literary world, but her style and schemes triumph over
those of many seasoned scribes... The Ghost Network earns its place
alongside some of the best modern mysteries."
—PopMatters
“A layered and twisted trip through the real and fictional, pop and
political, that sparks brightly when those worlds intersect... The
Ghost Network finds signs of life in unexpected places."
—Lambda Literary
“[An] innovative and troubling debut novel."
—Los Angeles Review of Books
“I could not put it down... Totally fun and different."
—Rachael Berkey, Nerdist, All the Books You Need to Read This
Summer
“[Disabato's] writing is contemporary, and the book is not shy
about carving out its very specific niche in time, but this book is
destined to become a new classic... The Ghost Network has just the
right balance of romance, mystery, and social commentary."
—Book Riot, Best Books of 2015
“It works because it really commits to its faux true crime conceit.
The Ghost Network is high concept but…unpretentious."
—Oyster Review
“A thinking reader’s thriller... It’s clever, complex and glitters
with fantastic flights of imagination, and Disabato is an exciting
young writer to watch."
—Lectito
“A terrific debut novel, one that fires on all cylinders... Pop
music, psychogeography, kinky sex stuff - this book has it all and
has fun with all of it."
—The Next Best Book Club
“Fascinating."
—Metapsychology Online Reviews
“Ingeniously combines fact and fiction... As gripping as it is
clever, it's both a treatise on modern celebrity and a thriller for
the thinking man or woman."
—The Independent (UK)
“A paean to the modern urban landscape... Simultaneously
breathlessly exhilarating and beautifully haunted."
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“A thrilling debut novel... Ultimately, the novel, with its
intricate structure and agile pacing, adds up to a layered,
well-executed story within an inventive story. Artistic ambition,
cultural critique, and a revolutionary philosophy drive the
mysteries underlying this complex, charismatic novel."
—Kirkus Reviews
“Brilliant, daring, and masterful . . . Impossible to put
down.”
—Edan Lepucki, New York Times bestselling author of California
“A high-concept mystery that looks to be a lot of fun."
—The Millions, Most Anticipated Books of 2015
“It looks like a thrilling read."
—Masters Review, Fifteen Books We’re Looking Forward to This
Year
"A giddy mashup of pop culture, genre-tropes, conspiracy theories
and dystopian fantasy. Imagine Thomas Pynchon possessed by the
spirit of a teenaged girl who is binge-watching TMZ while shrooming
out of her mind, and you get some idea of the layered,
phantasmagoric effect of this wonderfully trippy book. Catie
Disabato is a true original, and a young writer to watch."
—Dan Chaon, author of Await Your Reply
“As close as we’ll ever get to Borges filtering Lady Gaga, Calvino
analyzing Miley Cyrus, or Cortazaar obsessing over FKA Twigs, the
supremely talented Disabato gives us a synthwave pop illuminati
fantasy that will make your ears ring.”
—Maxwell Neely-Cohen, author of Echo of the Boom“Catie Disabato's
prose is as clean as a whistle and as sharp as a tack, and her
imagination is wondrous. A smart and exciting debut that plays by
its own rules."
—Ivy Pochoda, author of Visitation Street “Spectacularly
original. Meta, ingenious, and totally fun."
—Kate Durbin, author of E! Entertainment
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