The List: A Novel
Adrienne Brown has left a fabulous job as an editor of Town & Country, in which she partied with the rich and famous in New York, and collected a designer wardrobe to work in Washington, D.C., for a political newspaper and website that promises long hours and little recognition or pay. But it’s the Capitolist—the List—which is rising in power, influence, and the ability to launch careers into the stratosphere if its writers can hang on. Adrienne’s buddies in the little-respected style section offer support as they commiserate over their ill treatment. With every long, overworked day, Adrienne wonders about her decision. She’s 28, living with her parents in Virginia in an apartment above the barn, and working insane hours with no love life. Then she stumbles onto a sex scandal involving a prominent senator that could elevate her from the trenches into the limelight. But does she have the feral ambition it will take to get the story? Tanabe, a former Politico reporter, has written a fast-paced novel about politics and journalism in the digital age. --Vanessa Bush