Do The White Lotus Characters’ Book Choices Hint at Their Fates?

Jaclyn Lemon

Michelle Monaghan’s role as TV star Jaclyn Lemon’s book choice, Barbra Streisand’s memoir My Name Is Barbra, is comically large. It’s close to a thousand pages and not really what one would consider a “beach read.” However, Michelle loved the idea of her character lugging around the giant tome to soak up the sun.

“I just loved what it said about her, what she thought it was going to say about her, that she’s reading a Barbra Streisand book,” Michelle told TODAY.com.

Fans, however, think that the fact that Jaclyn chose a book that’s so clearly not a beach read was an effort to invoke the Streisand Effect.

“The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information. Yep, sounds right,” a Redditor wrote in The White Lotus subreddit.