Anne Bogel

It's by Alexandra Andrews.

It's called The Fine Art of Lying.

Do you know it?

Okay.

She wrote Who is Maude Dixon?

that came out maybe 2021, give or take a year, which was a suspenseful thriller with no likable characters.

And I'm really asking myself, I've been asking myself while you've been talking, like, are these characters likable?

But I think the protagonist of this book is,

has a lot that you will like about her.

So this is about a woman named Claire.

She's a Manhattan stay-at-home mom.

She lives a pretty tame life.

She is almost done with her art history PhD.

And she says that she's been languishing as an ABD, that is all but dissertation, forever.

And I'm going to skip to her revelation that she has at the end of the book for her.

She finally decides, like, I love art.

Like, I grew up in this tiny town upstate, and I went to a museum and fell in love with this one particular painting, and it set me on a path that made me think...

I want to know more about this.

And she thought, well, obviously the thing to do is pursue art history.

And if you're going to pursue it all the way, that ends up with pursuing a PhD.