In one of her most ambitious works, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker, the child, the woman, the fated celebrity, and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startlingly intimate and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story of an emblematic American artistintensely conflicted and driven who had lost her way. Soon to be a Netflix movie starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne Nicholson.