None of This Is True: A Novel

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes depictions of alcohol addiction.

At 3:00 am, an intoxicated man exits a hotel. He turns to look through the window at the girl in the lobby. When the car he is waiting for finally pulls up, the woman inside is not who he is expecting; her hair is dark, while his wife’s is blonde. She tells him that his wife sent her to bring him home. Finally, he gets in the car and slides into sleep in the passenger seat.

Netflix Ad for Hi! I’m Your Birthday Twin!

A short section appears before Chapter 1, featuring an advertisement for a new Netflix documentary, or “podumentary.” The ad is titled Hi! I’m Your Birthday Twin! and outlines a film about Alix Summer’s viral podcast of the same name. The ad relates that Alix, whose popular podcast, All Woman, ended in 2019, turned to a new project about a local woman (Josie) with whom she shares a birthday. The Netflix documentary promises to unveil the progression of Alix’s new project from a straightforward recounting of a local woman’s story to a darker realization of this woman’s true history and secrets as Alix herself becomes embroiled in a relationship that results in two murders.