{"product_id":"clickbait-paperback","title":"Clickbait - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHolly Baxter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 8 x 5.31 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 13, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41908251033735,"sku":"9780063375765","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/930a661c263304a492644bb2c2a63c4c.webp?v=1734078673","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/clickbait-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}