"Lilting prose, searing insight, and jaded wisdom."—BookLife, a Publishers Weekly company (Editor's Pick)

From Jessa White—therapist, trauma specialist, and the creator behind @therapyjessaofficial—comes a debut novel about the lives we perform online and the ones we're actually living.

Jersey Mau is seventeen, depressed, and eats dinner alone in a mansion most nights—the kind of detail that should come with a violin score and mostly comes with cold pad thai.

When a fading Hollywood agent talks her into posting on TikTok, Jersey does the one thing the influencer industry has no defense against: she tells the truth. About her depression. About loneliness. About what it actually feels like to be a teenager in the 21st century. The video explodes and so does everything else.

Soon, an anonymous account tries to destroy her. Veronica, a beauty influencer with ten million followers, decides Jersey is a threat. And the aging agent who discovered her—a man from another generation, carrying a grief he's never said out loud—becomes the steady presence keeping them both tethered.

Told through three converging points of view, Liked is a sharp, darkly-funny, deeply felt coming-of-age novel about visibility, identity, and the difference between performing a life and living one.

"The most honest and unsettling novel yet about influencer culture."—Taylor Lorenz, Author of Extremely Online