Give Me Danger

“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. Recently I read a piece of journalism bemoaning the absence of a contemporary literary brat pack. Why isn't there a 2024 equivalent to 1980s literary star children like Brett Easton Ellis and Tama Janowitz, this journalist wanted to know. I thought immediately of Tea, a writer with prosaic and personal pizazz, a writer one might easily point to as the stylistic heir to Janowitz and Ellis, a writer who could and should be first in line to fill that void. 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. Our heroine, Val, a writer, endures a barrage of casual degradation and exploitation that exists in the cultural milieu she traffics in; but Val is no victim, she is keenly aware of the transactional nature of modern relationships and plays the cards she's dealt with a biting self-awareness. 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

"Give Me Danger is a deliriously sharp, glitter-soaked literary satire about grief, ambition, delusion, and the modern condition of always performing—even in private. It’s haunted, hilarious, and heartbreakingly real. If your therapist says 'unpack that,' this book already has. Perfect for fans of destructive women with excellent taste—this novel feels like a breakup text from the universe." —Brittany Ackerman, author of The Brittanys and The Perpetual Motion Machine