{"product_id":"clickbait-9780063375765","title":"Clickbait","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe first thing they tell you when you begin your training is never to become the news.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063375765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/17\/2024\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Holly Baxter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44315135443125,"sku":"9780063375765","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9552623d-9f3c-4697-a0bf-57a3fb566607.jpg?v=1718720364","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/clickbait-9780063375765","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}