by Renata Adler
Kate sits in her Manhattan apartment, staring at the phone that won't ring with assignment calls. Once a respected political reporter, she now finds herself adrift in a media landscape that seems to have moved on without her. Her marriage to a fellow journalist has grown cold and distant. Her editor questions her judgment. Her sources have dried up. As Kate attempts to cover a corruption scandal involving a city councilman, she discovers that the boundaries between her personal disappointments and professional failures have blurred beyond recognition. She must decide whether to pursue a story that could salvage her career but destroy what remains of her relationships. The investigation forces her to confront uncomfortable truths about ambition, integrity, and the cost of wanting to matter in a world that may no longer need what she has to offer.
Genres: literary-fiction, american-fiction, politics, contemporary, 21st-century, political-thriller
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Manhattan
Period: 21st-Century
Hardcover · St Martins Pr