Cover Story: A Novel
English
By (author): Susan Rigetti
Netflixs Inventing Anna and Hulus The Dropout meets Catch Me If You Can in this captivating novel about an ambitious young woman who gets trapped in a charismatic con artists scam.
A Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Parade, New York Post, Shondaland, E!, Fortune, PopSugar, and more!
Its exciting, its surprising, its satisfying, its darkly funny, and it will keep you guessing.Linda Holmes for Today.com
After a rough year at NYU, aspiring writer Lora Ricci is thrilled to land a summer internship at ELLE magazine where she meets Cat Wolff, contributing editor and enigmatic daughter of a clean-energy mogul. Cat takes Lora under her wing, soliciting her help with side projects and encouraging her writing.
As a friendship emerges between the two women, Lora opens up to Cat about her financial struggles and lost scholarship. Cats solution: Drop out of NYU and become her ghostwriter. Lora agrees and, when the internship ends, she moves into Cats suite at the opulent Plaza Hotel. Writing during the day and accompanying Cat to extravagant parties at night, Loras life quickly shifts from looming nightmare to dream-come-true. But as Lora is drawn into Cats glamorous lifestyle, Cats perfect exterior cracks, exposing an illicit, shady world.
A whip-smart and delightfully inventive writer, Susan Rigetti brilliantly pieces together a perceptive, humorous caper full of sharp observations about scam culture. Composed of diary entries, emails, FBI correspondence, and more, Cover Story is a fresh, fun, and wholly original novel that takes readers deep into the codependency and deceit found in a relationship built on power imbalance and lies.
[A] page-turner thats hilarious in its dedication to vamping on viral news stories about real-life strivers and cons from Delvey to Instagram personality Caroline Calloway a delicious read.TIME magazine
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