A Novel Obsession: A Novel

ISBN: 0593185595

Author: Barasch, Caitlin

Condition: New

A Good Morning America Buzz Pick, and a BuzzFeed and New York Post "Best Book of 2022""If youve ever felt tempted to keep tabs on a partners ex on Instagram and then found yourself down a rabbit hole of their vacation posts from three years ago, this debut novel-which follows a 24-year-old New Yorker named Naomi who becomes obsessed with her boyfriends former girlfriend-is for you."-Vogue, Best New Beach ReadsTwenty-four-year-old New York bookseller Naomi Ackerman is desperate to write a novel, but struggles to find a story to tell. When, after countless disastrous dates, she meets Caleb-a perfectly nice guy with a Welsh accent and a unique patience for all her quirks-she thinks she's finally stumbled onto a time-honored subject: love. Then Caleb's ex-girlfriend, Rosemary, enters the scene.Upon learning that Rosemary is not safely tucked away in Calebs homeland overseas, but in fact lives in New York and also works in the literary world, Naomi is threatened and intrigued in equal measure. If they both fell for the same man, what else might they have in common? The more Naomi learns about Rosemary, the more her curiosity consumes her. Before she knows it, her casual Instagram stalking morphs into a friendship under false pretenses-and becomes the subject of her nascent novel.As her lies and half-truths spiral out of control, and fact and fiction become increasingly difficult to untangle, Naomi must decide what-and who-shes willing to sacrifice to write the perfect ending.