About A Millennial Daydream
On the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in 2007, behind electric fences and manicured greens, seventeen-year-old Hartley Byron is doing her best to disappear.
She’s Oakfield’s resident bad influence: plays guitar in a girl band, rides the combi to a Catholic English school, sneaks out to clubs, treats drugs like a sport and herself like collateral damage. Inside the same gated terrarium, Jaden Ashworth is the golden girl everyone is betting on—top of the class, Harvard brochures still pinned to her board, parish hoodie, volunteer trips to women’s shelters and ranch towns her family technically owns.
They’re not supposed to orbit each other. Then a golf course after curfew, a pack of cigarettes, and one too-honest conversation knock them into the same story.
As Argentina stumbles through crisis outside the gates, Hartley and Jaden build a secret world of combi rides, back fences, green rooms and late-night landline calls—until love collides with addiction, class guilt, and a mother who would rather lose her daughter than let her love the wrong girl.
From Ferris wheels and Punta beaches to OD wards and rehab ranches, A Millennial Daydream follows two rich girls trying to answer the only questions that matter: What do I owe the world, what do I owe myself, and what do I owe the person I love—when I’m both privileged and wrecked?
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Author Bio:
V.A. Wonder writes about the things people are told to look away from: obsession, addiction, and the fragile violence of first love. A former resident of the era of neon grass and flip phones, her debut novel A Millennial Daydream captures the suffocating, neon-lit energy of 2007 Argentina. She prefers fiction that asks difficult questions and offers few easy answers. She currently lives in Argentina.