A twisty, propulsive exploration of internet fame, motherhood, and the stories we tell―and judge―about the lives we consume online. In suburban Orlando, Joanna’s life is small, rigid, and quietly unraveling. She spends her days fixated on a mommy influencer she’s never met, scrutinizing her posts for signs of incompetence. As she becomes certain that Nora Diamond isn’t doing it right―that she would be a more attentive and deserving mother to Stella―judgment curdles into parasocial obsession. In Nashville, Nora―a former reality TV star and wife of a rising country singer―struggles to hold onto relevance as her spotlight fades. But when a bizarre incident launches her into virality, her carefully staged life begins to splinter. Told in alternating, converging narratives, Household Name hurtles toward a collision between watcher and watched, admiration and intrusion. In this sharp debut, Maggie Menditto interrogates the thinning line between public performance and private identity, particularly for women whose lives are lived and consumed online. In doing so, she captures the strangeness of our digital age with a surreal, heightened realism.