Beautiful. Damaged. Destructive. Meet Alexa Wú, a brilliant yet darkly self-aware young woman whose chaotic life is manipulated and controlled by a series of alternate personalities. Only three people know about their existence: her shrink, Daniel; her stepmother, Anna; and her enigmatic best friend, Ella. The perfect trio of trust. When Ella gets a job at a high-end gentlemen’s club, she catches the attention of its sharklike owner and is gradually drawn into his inner circle. As Alexa becomes intimately entangled with Ella’s new world, she soon finds herself the unwitting keeper of a nightmarish secret. With no one to turn to, and lives at stake, she follows Ella into London’s cruel underbelly on a daring rescue mission. Threatened and vulnerable, Alexa will discover whether her multiple personalities are her greatest asset or her most dangerous obstacle. Electrifying and breathlessly compulsive, The Eighth Girl is an omnivorous examination of life with mental illness and the acute trauma of life in a misogynistic world. Written in bingeable prose with a clinician’s expertise, Chung’s psychological debut deftly navigates the swirling confluence of identity, innocence, and the impossible fracturing weight that young women are forced to carry, causing us to ask: Does the truth lead to self-discovery, or to self-destruction?