Having relinquished both sword and comb, Jen leaps from Wudan Mountain, away from the physical world forever. Upon her release, she promptly finds a new obsession in the pages of a glossy magazine: influencer Taylor Sloane, whose California lifestyle is a fever dream of vintage campers, filtered sunsets, avocado toasts, and oversized sunglasses. When it comes to marriage, her father chooses her husband for her, to maximize the benefit to his own career. The book opens with Alicia asking Remy whether she should print out a photo of Jen’s face to wear over hers while they have sex: “I could cut little holes in the eyes.

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Once there, Remy and Alicia try (a little too hard) to fit into Jen’s exalted social circle, but violent desire and class resentment bubble beneath the surface of this beachside paradise, threatening to erupt. Back home in the city, Alicia enters a deepening spiral of Jen-obsession, but just when Morgan seems set on a deep dive into Alicia’s vulnerability to society’s constant pressure to display the most authentic version of an invented self, the plot takes a dramatic twist. You can view movies and shows in one place and filter by streaming provider, genre, release year, runtime, and rating (Rotten Tomatoes, Imdb, and/or Metacritic). For all the commonality they share, though, there is an underlying tension between them that eventually explodes into violence.Because of the toxic relationship of the prior generation — between Jen’s master and Li Mu Bai’s master — it’s all but impossible for Jen to submit herself to Li Mu Bai’s teachings.

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At a talk held on the Columbia campus, she observes a row of students “all frenziedly stroking luminous screens held in their laps.Emma Moran developed Extraordinary while completing her Master of Arts in Screenwriting at the University of Manchester, from which she graduated in 2020. Of all those in Jen’s life, Shu Lien seems to be the only one with no designs on possessing her in one form or another. Like Sympathy, Morgan’s novel is flush with tactile language—Alicia wants to “unzip [Jen] from top to bottom,” while Remy “[wishes] to bury himself wrist-deep in her skin”—but the novel diverges in the way its protagonists cross paths with their prey. I didn’t know what was going to happen, I just said to the universe: hey, I’m here and I’m your vessel.