Selamat datang di Underground, stasiun televisi musik terbesar di Amerika Serikat, tempat para entertainer muda dan VJ, icon kehidupan metropolis, menjalani hari-hari normal mereka, itu jika anda bisa bilang bahwa hidup 10 jam sehari dalam sorotan lampu studio, terbang bolak balik dengan Marquis Jet meliput AmsterJam dan Live 8, dan berpose untuk cover Rolling Stone biasa-biasa saja. Di bawah kilatan blitz, segalanya tampak sempurna. Liv baru saja dinobatkan menjadi salah satu dari 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. Stefan, the most eligible bachelor in New York, sukses mengembangkan sebuah celebrity online promotion company. Gavin berhasil membawa band-nya masuk major label. Claire diperebutkan MTV dan VH1. Heather dan Jared menikmati setiap detik cinta lokasi mereka. Shareef dan Aaliyah bisa menggantikan Brad Pitt dan Angelina Jolie berpose di majalah W sebagai keluarga Amerika sempurna. Tapi ketika lampu blitz padam dan red carpet telah digulung, they have to face the hard truth. Soulmate yang tak kunjung datang, isu keperawanan di kalangan selebriti yang dianggap kolot, gosip yang memenuhi tabloid, overdosis, bedah plastik, hingga kehamilan di luar nikah hanyalah sebagian kerikil-kerikil yang harus mereka lalui. Underground adalah sebuah novel sederhana tentang kehidupan kompleks kaum selebritis, walaupun seperti kebanyakan orang, mereka masih berusaha mencari makna persahabatan dan cinta yang seutuhnya.
Author
IKA NATASSA is an Indonesian author who is also a banker at the largest bank in Indonesia and the founder of LitBox, the first literary startup of its kind in the country, which combines the concept of mystery box and onine promotions for writers. She loves writing since since was a little kid and finished writing her first novel in English at the age of 19. She is best known for writing a series of popular novels focusing on the lives of young bankers in Indonesia. Her debut novel A Very Yuppy Wedding is published in 2007, and she has released six books since: Divortiare (2008), Underground (2010), Antologi Rasa (2011), Twivortiare (2012), dan Twivortiare 2 (2014), and Critical Eleven (2015). A Very Yuppy Wedding is the Editor's Choice of Cosmopolitan Indonesia magazine in 2008, and she was also nominated in the Talented Young Writer category in the prestigious Khatulistiwa Literary Award in the same year. She loves to experiment with writing methods, Twivortiare and Twivortiare 2 are the two novels she wrote entirely on Twitter. Antologi Rasa and Twivortiare are currently being adapted into feature films by two of the most prominent production houses in Indonesia. Natassa is also one of the finalists of Fun Fearless Female of Cosmopolitan Indonesia magazine. In 2008, she was awarded with The Best Change Agent at her company for her active role in corporate culture implementation in the bank, and in 2010 she was awarded for 2010 Best Employee Award. Her success in maintaining a career at the bank whilst pursuing writing as her other passion led to her being awarded awarded as the Women Icon by The Marketeers in 2010. Out of the love of books, in 2013 she founded LitBox, a brand new concept she's in introducing to readers in Indonesia. It's the first literary startup company of its kind, aiming to provide readers with recommended books, to help writers get their writings read by people, and to help publishers introduce new talents to the market. On July 2014, she commenced a social movement campaign to promote the joy of reading called Reading is Sexy, so far supported by Indonesian and regional public figures such as Acha Septriasa, Jason Godfrey, Hamish Daud Wyllie, Karina Salim, Ernest Prakasa, Mouly Surya, and many more. Twitter and Instagram: @ikanatassa LinkedIn: Ika Natassa Personal website: www.ikanatassa.com
