The Mythmakers Keziah Weir by Keziah Weir 9781982189587, 9781982189600, 1982189584, 1982189606 instant download after payment.

From an acclaimed senior editor at Vanity Fair comes an intoxicating debut novel about a young journalist who discovers a short story that’s inexplicably about her life—leading to an entanglement with the author’s widow, daughter, & former best friend.

Sal Cannon’s life is in shambles. Her relationship is crumbling, & her career in journalism hits a low point after it’s revealed that her profile of a playwright is full of inaccuracies. She’s close to rock-bottom when she reads a short story by Martin Keller: a much older author she met at a literary event years ago. Much to her shock, the story is about her & the moment they met. When Sal learns the story is excerpted from his unpublished novel, she reaches out to the story’s editor—only to learn that Martin is deceased. Desperate to leave her crumbling life behind & to read the manuscript from which the story was excerpted, Sal decides to find Martin’s widow, Moira.

Moira has made it clear that she doesn’t want to be contacted. But soon Sal is on a bus to Upstate New York, where she slowly but surely inserts herself into Moira’s life. Or is it the other way around? As Sal sifts through Martin’s papers & learns more about Moira, the question of muse & artist arises—again & again. Even more so when Martin’s daughter’s story emerges. Who owns a story? And who is the one left to tell it?

The Mythmakers is a nesting doll of a book that grapples with perspective & memory, as well as the battles between creative ambition & love. It’s a story about the trials & tribulations of finding out who you are, at any stage in your life, & how inspiration might find you in the strangest of places.

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Keziah Weir is a senior editor at Vanity Fair. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Elle, Esquire, & the Los Angeles Review of Books. She grew up in California & British Columbia, & currently lives in Maine with her husband & dog.