{"product_id":"the-hot-one-9781451625820","title":"The Hot One","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Both an introspective look at young female friendship and a riveting true-crime tale.\"\u003cbr\u003e – \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Murnick is an engaging writer and her story of the seamy side of young Hollywood sucks you in like a link to TMZ.\"\u003cbr\u003e – \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Riveting...A thoughtful examination of how we grow up and apart.\" \u003cbr\u003e – \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Darkly beautiful...Poetic and riveting.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e– Interview\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"While the specific story is tragic and interesting in its own right, the central themes — of friendship, and of how you can share a childhood with someone, then come to hardly know them at all — will resonate with many.\"\u003cbr\u003e – \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A rueful exploration of how two New Jersey girls, such close friends in fifth grade that they felt they were nearly the same person, found themselves on very different paths.\"\u003cbr\u003e – \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"An elegy to female friendship and the ways it shapes us, even as we grow older and grow apart.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eRefinery29\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Thoughtful and thorough, both in exploring the dynamics of female friendships and reporting from chilling courtroom hearings.\"\u003cbr\u003e – \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A true crime page-turner and also a really lovely meditation on friendships between women and the way they change.\"\u003cbr\u003e – \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlate's DoubleX Gabfest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Murnick’s memoir will shock and fascinate.\"\u003cbr\u003e – \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Original and engaging.” \u003cbr\u003e – \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"This fusion of memoir and procedural should be welcomed by readers of autobiography as well as true crime.\"\u003cbr\u003e – \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Carolyn Murnick’s insights into the freighted complexities of youth, beauty, and sexuality, and how these forces collide within long, close female friendships, turn an already affecting murder mystery into a story for our time. Never morbid or sentimental, always honest, \u003ci\u003eThe Hot One\u003c\/i\u003e is a wholly original memoir that explores and unpacks the often vexing reality of what it means to be a young woman in the 21st century.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Kate Bolick, bestselling author of SPINSTER\u003ci\u003e: Making a Life of One’s Own\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A journalist’s investigation into her childhood friend’s murder—a riveting subject on its own—is so much more in writer Carolyn Murnick’s hands. Murnick exposes the sticky complexity of female friendship and identity. She questions what our debts are to the dead and forces us to look at ourselves. Three pages in and I knew that I wouldn’t get anything else done. I inhaled \u003ci\u003eThe Hot One\u003c\/i\u003e in 24 hours, riveted from its haunting preface to its heartbreaking final sentence.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Susannah Cahalan, bestselling author of BRAIN ON FIRE: \u003ci\u003eMy Month of Madness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Carolyn Murnick's \u003ci\u003eThe Hot One\u003c\/i\u003e is as suspenseful as it is heartfelt and honest— an affecting, revealing investigation into the mysteries at the heart of young friendship.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Robert Kolker, author of LOST GIRLS: \u003ci\u003eAn Unsolved American Mystery\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49530118242647,"sku":"9781451625820","price":16.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781451625820.jpg?v=1731878131","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-hot-one-9781451625820","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}