Clickbait

<p><strong>With the dark comedy and sharp observations of Monica Heisey and Dolly Alderton a whip-smart and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel about a disgraced newly divorced journalist demoted to a clickbait job at a Manhattan tabloid.</strong></p><p><em>The first thing they tell you when you begin your training is never to become the news.</em></p><p> Natasha has screwed up royally. Her mistake isn't just embarrassing it's a breach of journalistic ethics that makes headlines and costs her a plum job reporting from London. Back in New York at thirty-five and single divorced from a kind man she loved she finds herself at the bottom of the media food chain--a junior reporter at a clickbait factory rewriting sensational tabloid stories to make them just different enough to avoid lawsuits.</p><p> As if her professional fall from grace weren't bad enough she's taken the money she'd saved for a down payment for a home on a charming Brooklyn block with her husband and rashly bought a boxy apartment overlooking the gray ocean in Rockaway Beach Queens.</p><p> Though seeing friends and family only serves to remind her of what she's lost things begin to pick up when her ex-boyfriend Zach moves back to New York and accepts her offer of a spare bedroom. The arrangement is strictly platonic of course--for him. But Natasha can't help but wonder whether he might be the solution to all her problems.</p><p> As Natasha's obsession with Zach grows and her involvement in increasingly dystopian churnalism deepens her worlds threaten to collide in the most cataclysmic extremely public way.</p>