Christina Kovac — Watch Us Fall: A Novel - with Angie Kim
December 26, 2025
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December 26, 2025
Christina Kovac — Watch Us Fall: A Novel - with Angie Kim
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<p>Lucy and her three best friends share a glamorous but decaying house in the heart of Georgetown. They call themselves “the Sweeties” and live an idyllic post-grad lifestyle complete with exciting jobs, dramatic love lives, and, most importantly, each other.<br />But when Addie, the group’s queen bee, discovers that her ex-boyfriend Josh has gone missing, the Sweeties’ worlds are turned upside down. In the days leading up to his disappearance, Josh, a star investigative journalist from a prominent political family, was behaving erratically—and Lucy is determined to find out why. All four friends upend their lives to search for him, but detectives begin to suspect that the Sweeties might know more than they’re letting on.<br />As the investigation unfolds, Lucy’s obsession with the case reaches a boiling point, and with it, her own troubling secrets begin bubbling to the surface of her carefully curated life. A thrilling account of the lies and delusions that lurk beneath cloistered groups of female friends and the sinister realities of celebrity, <a href="https://politics-prose.com/book/9781501141720"><strong>Watch Us Fall</strong></a> is a gripping mystery and an examination of the things we tell ourselves when we can’t face the truth.</p><p><strong>Christina Kovac</strong> is the author of The Cutaway. She worked for seventeen years managing Washington, DC, newsrooms and producing crime and political stories in the District. Her career as a television journalist began with Fox Five’s Ten O’Clock News, and after that, the ABC affiliate in Washington and then at NBC news. She lives with her family outside of Washington, DC. </p><p>Kovac is in conversation with <strong>Angie Kim</strong>, the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Happiness Falls</em>, a GMA and B&N book club pick, Virginia Literary Award winner, <em>Oprah Daily</em>’s #1 novel of 2023, and accordingly to Gary Shteyngart, is "what Dostoevsky might have written if he had been an American and also not a jerk". Her debut, <em>Miracle Creek, </em>was an Edgar winner and one of <em>Time</em>’s 100 best mysteries and thrillers of all time. A Korean immigrant who moved to Baltimore in middle school, Kim attended Stanford University and Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the <em>Harvard Law Review. </em></p><p>https://politics-prose.com/book/9781501141720?ic_referral=6csyAnU5QLvNgag7ympImEGLGnOBr-k7835Sw8I437EwMzQ_ZIduZY1YwE6k3kJwawKxRYgqDv5jFpN5SKSCeeQweYGNzyZqU8GlDBgNhNm2ICY7VpIdvKYfq70tkmt0abvvR4E</p>
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