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A Novel Obsession by Caitlin Barasch
A wry and bold debut novel, which is at once an irresistible catastrophe waiting to happen and an unflinching exploration of how we narrate the stories of our lives, as an aspiring novelist finds herself stalking?and writing about?her boyfriend?s ex-girlfriend.?I can?t help but compare our worth as writers, as lovers, as women. Is anything solely mine, or will I always dwell in someone else?s shadow?? Twenty-four-year-old bookseller and New Yorker Naomi Ackerman, desperate to write a novel, struggles to find the right story to tell. When, after years of disastrous Tinder dates, she meets Caleb?a perfectly nice guy with a Welsh accent and a unique patience for all of her quirks?she feels she's finally stumbled onto a time-honored subject: love. But then Caleb's ex-girlfriend, Rosemary, enters the scene. When Naomi learns that Rosemary is not safely tucked away overseas as she'd assumed but in fact lives in New York and works in the literary world, she is fundamentally threatened and