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Tea Hacic-Vlahovic is a Croatian-American writer and performer. She has a BA in fashion design from Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti. She's been a columnist for Vice and Wired Italy, contributing editor of Wonderland Magazine and contributor to magazines like Autre, Oyster and i-D. She's the founder and creative director of a parody art magazine, STAI ZITTA. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their dog. Life of the Party is her first novel. Follow her on IG & Twitter @teahacic
Clever debut novel of fashion and nightlife, readers are introduced to Mia, an expat newly moved to Milan. The drugs, nightclubs, and men blur together into a seemingly nonstop, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas-style fever dream as intense as it is dripping with style. Publishers' Weekly Tea Hacic is an MDMA-fueled Oscar Wilde with fake eyelashes and this book is a Fear and Loathing for the late Berlusconi-era; a deep walk of shame that tiptoes between a bewildering Bildungsroman and a fever dream of social climbing and social embarrassment. OLIVER KUPPER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF AUTRE MAGAZINE A recollection of youth as seen through the dichotomy of control vs desperation, Americana vs. Milanese, luxury vs poverty and uppers vs downers. BJ PANDA BEAR AT FLAUNT MAGAZINE Tea recounts with brutal honesty the period in which Milan officially became the Italian city that everyone hates and envies. VICE Italy Life of the Party is a good goddamn time. Columbia Journal The party seduced me, the darkness shocked me, and Mia's wondrous naivete uplifted me. FLAUNT Magazine It's as intoxicating as the best party you've ever been to...Hacic-Vlahovic has written one hell of a ride. The Big Smoke
