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Aqu Blog September 24, 2023

The Plot

by Jean Hanff Korelitz

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** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ** The Tonight Show Summer Reads Pick **Hailed as "breathtakingly suspenseful," Jean Hanff Korelitz?s The Plot is a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it.Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he?s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what?s left of his self-respect; he hasn?t written?let alone published?anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn?t need Jake?s help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot.Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker?s first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake