The Plot is a mystery novel about a novel. The main character is Jacob Finch Bonner, an author who was more or less a one-hit wonder. (He adopted the name Finch because of his love of To Kill A Mockingbird.) After his mostly ignored second book, he goes on to teach writing at a writing workshop. Because, well, if you can't write, you can always teach writing. He meets a student, a really cocky guy who has a way with words and a great idea for a novel.
A few years later, working at another writing retreat, he meets another arrogant writer which makes him thinkin about the first cocky guy. Thinking about the plot of that guy's novel, he's surprised he'd never heard of it. he googles the writer only to learn that he died shortly after they'd met.
Bonner takes the plot idea and writes his own novel, stealing the plot that simply couldn't fail. It becomes a best seller. THE novel of the season.
I don't want to give anything else away. I will say that the ending of the novel left me a little flat. However, what a fun book to read. It was really interesting to see how Korelitz gets from here to there in her plot line. Not great literature. Not something I'd normally read. But I would recommend this one.
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