Jenna Takes The Fall: A Novel

by A. R. Taylor

Overview

Twenty-four years old and newly employed in Manhattan, Jenna McCann agrees to place herself under the dead body of a wealthy, prominent New Yorker—her boss—to hide the identity of his real lover. But why?

Because she is half in love with him herself; because her only friend at Hull Industries asked her to; because she feared everyone around her; because she had no idea how this would spin out into her own, undeveloped life; because she had nothing and no one?

Or just because?

Deftly told and sharply observed, Jenna Takes the Fall is the story of someone who became infamous . . . before she became anybody at all.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781631527937
Publisher:	She Writes Press
Publication date:	09/01/2020
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

A.R. Taylor is a playwright, essayist, and fiction writer. Her debut novel, Sex, Rain, and Cold Fusion, won a Gold Medal for Best Regional Fiction at the IPPY Book Awards 2015, was a USA Best Book Awards Finalist, and was named by Kirkus Reviews as one of the 12 Most Cinematic Indie Books of 2014. Her second novel, Jenna Takes The Fall, received the 2021 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Bronze Medal in Fiction: Intrigue. She's been published in the Los Angeles Times, the Southwest Review, Pedantic Monthly, The Cynic, the Berkeley Insider, So It Goes—the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library Magazine, Red Rock Review, and Rosebud. In her past life, she was head writer on two Emmy-winning series for public television. She has performed at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York, Tongue & Groove in Hollywood, and Lit Crawl L.A. 2016. Find her video blog, Trailing Edge: Ideas Whose Time Has Come and Gone, at www.lonecamel.com.

Editorial Reviews

2021 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Bronze Medal in Fiction: Intrigue

“Taylor’s latest novel begins with a grabber of a prologue. . . . An enjoyable escape that leaves you smiling.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“A dazzling debut. Jenna Takes the Fall introduces a hero who could have stepped from today’s headlines. This modern tale of a desperate ingenue who careens into power plays, romance, and wealth will keep you reading into the night and waiting for A.R. Taylor’s next novel.”
—Doug Stanton, New York Times best-selling author of 12 Strong

“I am quite sure this going to be a really big book.”
—Anne Stanton, cofounder and executive editor of National Writers Series and editorial director of Mission Point Press

“A delicious title filled with every kind of possibility. Yes, A.R. has opened with a page-turner. Established something sordid and so of eternal human interest.”
—Robert A. B. Sawyer, poet and author of American Lullaby

“Jenna Takes the Fall is sharp, surprising, and highly funny. Jenna McCann is an ingenue only A.R. Taylor (and our batty society) could have created.”
—Charlie Haas, author of the novel The Enthusiast, humor writer for The New Yorker, and prolific screenwriter

“When I read the opening to Jenna Takes The Fall by A.R. Taylor, I was so intrigued that I had to download this book. The scenario of wriggling beneath the dead body of your boss was one of the most eye-catching beginnings to any book I’ve ever picked up.” 
—Readers’ Favorite 

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