You Are What You See

“Insightful and interesting. Doménica Feraud captures the immensely relatable experience of a generation raised by television. Through deeply personal stories, she weaves a tale of growth & loss; describing how the media in her life was able to shake her sense of self while also being capable of giving her the strength she needed to move forward. Anyone who grew up with their TV as a companion will be able to see at least some of their journey in Doménica’s relentlessly vulnerable prose. I couldn’t put it down.” – Taran Armstrong, USA Today Bestselling author of Behind the Mirror
“People love to dismiss facets of television and pop culture as superficial, but Doménica Feraud understands just how deeply these stories shape the way women see themselves - their relationships, beauty, ambition, grief, and even their self-worth. You Are What You See is thoughtful, vulnerable, and brilliantly written. This is the kind of book that makes you look at the media you grew up loving in a completely different way.” – Margaret Josephs, star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey and author of Caviar Dreams, Tuna Fish Budget
“To the adolescent TV devotée, no drug is more potent than a haphazardly-crafted, multi-season character arc riddled with misguided decisions. Doménica Feraud deeply understands pop culture’s intoxicating powers of possession. In You Are What You See, Feraud gives insightful, intimate reflections on how seemingly frivolous media can shape our personal expectations, self-worth, and actions – for better or worse. ” – Grace Perry, author of The 2000s Made Me Gay
“This book is both a wildly emphatic love letter to the television shows and movies that have shaped us all, and at once a condemnation of the dangerous tropes these reality shows and RomComs reinforce. You Are What You See is a heartfelt, personal portrait of a television and movie fanatic that not only broaches difficult issues with grace and intellect, it also serves to parse our favorite shows and films to expose the toxicity that often lays beneath all of our pop-culture fixations.” – Thea de Sousa, author of The Real Housewives Ultimate Trivia Book, The Vanderpump Rules Ultimate Trivia Book and admin for the popular Bravo fan page on Instagram, @yourmomsarewatching

DOMENICA FERAUD is a first-generation Ecuadorian writer and actor from New York City. Her groundbreaking play Rinse, Repeat, which Feraud wrote and starred in, premiered at the Signature Theatre in 2019. Feraud’s performance was heralded as “excellent” and the play was a New York Times Critic’s Pick. Her essay, “The Movie Star and Me,” has created waves across the globe and is currently being adapted into a feature film. Feraud graduated with a BFA from The Stella Adler Studio of Acting at NYU Tisch.

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