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Give Me Danger

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Pub Date Nov 04 2025 | Archive Date Oct 13 2025

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Description

From international cult author, Tea Hačić-Vlahović, comes a dark literary comedy celebrating and damning both coasts, following Val from LA where drug dealer crushes and cute homeless boys distract her from writing her next book, to NYC for a funeral for her writing career and love life.

Val’s debut hit novel earned her a glamorous beach house, but it left her desperate for legitimacy. Now, she’s pinned her hope for literary clout to Leonardo, a New York publishing legend, who has accepted her second novel. Unfortunately, before he finishes editing, he dies in a shocking twist, leaving Val to attend his memorial in search of answers.

At the Roxy Hotel in NYC, she runs into rivals and shady people from her past and befriends a rat, who may or may not be the late editor reincarnated. Meanwhile, back in Los Angeles, a homeless kid and drug dealer meet under unlikely circumstances, in Val’s living room.

Doom looms on the horizon, as people on both coasts try to make peace with their ambitions, failures and horoscopes. For readers of Anna Dorn’s Exalted and Mona Awad’s Bunny, Give Me Danger is a keening exploration of what happens when success is not enough.

From international cult author, Tea Hačić-Vlahović, comes a dark literary comedy celebrating and damning both coasts, following Val from LA where drug dealer crushes and cute homeless boys distract...


Advance Praise

“Tea Hačić-Vlahović is a peerless writer, unrivalled. Tea's work is highly stylized, playful and voice-y, pop yet literary and always undeniably her own. It's like nothing else being published today. Her latest novel Give Me Danger is both a literary satire and a painfully realistic portrait of grieving. It's feminine and edgy, raw and pop and weird and unapologetic, humming with cutting observations about womanhood and sex, written with avant-garde style, which is a selling point, something to celebrate. Tea and her work are stand-outs. I will never stop singing their praises.” —Allie Rowbottom, author of Jell-O Girls and Aesthetica

"Tea Hačić-Vlahović has an uncanny ability to both thrill and terrorize her readers with deadpan humor and electric prose that cut like a knife. Reading Give Me Danger feels like stepping inside all the iconic parties you're not invited to, as told by the only girl who can get you in. A phantasmagoric romp through a dystopian present-day Los Angeles, where the decadence of martinis, velvet and room service co-mingle with rats, violence and trash. This book is a shimmering salve for my internet-addled brain; it makes me want to log off, unearth my sluttiest dress, and go out." —Nada Alic, author of Bad Thoughts

“Nobody writes compulsive sexy-horror-envy-intimacy like Tea Hačić-Vlahović. This book will make you laugh at the elaborate facades which are possible to conjure in this rotten world, and, often in the same sentence, weep at their inevitable failures. A bonafide zinger, and I don’t say that lightly.” —Megan Nolan, author of Acts of Desperation

“Tea Hačić-Vlahović takes pride in turning lowbrow into vision, a party report into Baroque Conceptismo, rats and pigeons into prophets. In short, she is the academy’s wet dream: possessing the ability to read the present with jokes, not footnotes.” —Spike Art Magazine

“Tea Hačić-Vlahović is a peerless writer, unrivalled. Tea's work is highly stylized, playful and voice-y, pop yet literary and always undeniably her own. It's like nothing else being published today...


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ISBN 9781960988829
PRICE $17.95 (USD)
PAGES 202

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