Self Care

A Novel

By: Leigh Stein

Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio, Karissa Vacker, Nicole Lewis

"Highbrow, brilliant." --The Approval Matrix, New York magazine

One of Cosmopolitan's 12 Books You'll Be Dying to Read This Summer
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of Summer 2020
A Vulture Best Book of Summer 2020
One of Refinery29's 25 Books You'll Want to Read This Summer
An Esquire Must-Read Book of Summer 2020
A Book Riot Best Book of 2020 *so far

The female cofounders of a wellness start-up struggle to find balance between being good people and doing good business, while trying to stay BFFs.

Maren Gelb is on a company-imposed digital detox. She tweeted something terrible about the President's daughter, and as the COO of Richual, “the most inclusive online community platform for women to cultivate the practice of self-care and change the world by changing ourselves,” it's a PR nightmare. Not only is CEO Devin Avery counting on Maren to be fully present for their next round of funding, but indispensable employee Khadijah Walker has been keeping a secret that will reveal just how feminist Richual’s values actually are, and former Bachelorette contestant and Richual board member Evan Wiley is about to be embroiled in a sexual misconduct scandal that could destroy the company forever.
Have you ever scrolled through Instagram and seen countless influencers who seem like experts at caring for themselves—from their yoga crop tops to their well-lit clean meals to their serumed skin and erudite-but-color-coded reading stack? Self Care delves into the lives and psyches of people working in the wellness industry and exposes the world behind the filter.

Wellness is a scam

I really enjoyed this satire and I re listen every year. It feels especially germane as a millennial in my 30s during these particular years. Even now in the second half of the 2020s, these characters feel like a send up of every flavor of TikTok and insta influencer. I especially love that she skewered a male feminist as well. 10/10 no notes.

Boring satire

I wanted to like this. I found it tiresome because I did not care about the characters. They seemed narcissistic to me. I am deleting it from my library.

Very good satire

I really liked this book i enjoyed that none of the characters were actually likable you kind of wanna hate them all definitely gave a good description of woke culture in an extremely satirical way

Loved it

Contemporary, funny and well read. I look forward to reading more by this authors and listening to more books narrated by the 3 readers.

Great!

Took me a while to get into it but I really enjoyed this book. Very funny and thoughtful.