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SUMMARY:Mystery Book Discussion
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LOCATION:27 114th St\nTroy NY 12182
ROOM: Upstairs Study Room
DESCRIPTION:Join this evening book group as we explore mystery fiction as 
 chosen by the group. Meets on the first Tuesday of each month at the Lansi
 ngburgh Branch Library.No registration necessary. June Mystery book discu
 ssion of The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz. Copies are available digitally 
 and physical copies are available at the Lansingburgh Branch Library. Sho
 rt DescriptionJacob 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. Whe
 n 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 i
 s prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . 
 . . he hears the plot.Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own c
 areer 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 does what any
  self-respecting writer would do with a story like that—a story that abs
 olutely needs to be told.In a few short years, all of Evan Parker’s pred
 ictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is we
 althy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of h
 is glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, 
 anonymous campaign: You are a thief, it says.As Jake struggles to understa
 nd his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, 
 he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both
  amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the ide
 a for his “sure thing” of a novel? What is the real story behind the p
 lot, and who stole it from whom?
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