Angelica Baker

Angelica Baker examines wealth, friendship, loyalty, and the stories communities tell to protect themselves. Our Little Racket, her first novel, follows five women connected to a powerful Greenwich family after an investment bank collapses and its chief executive comes under scrutiny. Madison, the executive's daughter, shares the narrative field with her mother, her friend, a family friend, and a household employee, allowing the consequences of public scandal to appear from unequal positions. Ecco published the novel in 2017. Baker later wrote When We Grow Up, a novel about longtime friends whose Hawaiian gathering is disrupted by an emergency alert and old tensions. Her New York Times essays and other reviews have appeared in Vogue, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Literary Hub. Across both novels, Baker uses enclosed social groups to explore how privilege and shared history influence what characters admit, conceal, or forgive. Her nonfiction shares that interest in public narratives and private conduct.