Our American Friend

Our American Friend

By Anna Pitoniak

Genre:-Crime Fiction

Pages:-320

Publisher:-No Exit Press

Blurb:-'Emily in Paris meets Scandal' (New York Times) in this propulsive Cold War-era political thriller as one intrepid journalist writes the official biography of the mysterious First Lady-uncovering secrets that could destroy them both...

 For fans of The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott (10K sold), American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeild (200K sold) and Tangerine by Christine Mangan (80K sold), as well as BookTok sensation Tayor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (213K sold)

 Spanning from the 1970s to the present day, traveling from Moscow and Paris to Washington and New York, Our American Friend is both a devasting love story and a timely page-turner exploring power, politics and complicity.

 Anna Pitoniak is the author of The Futures and Necessary People, which was selected as a Book of the Week by People, a Book of the Month by Cosmopolitan, Town & Country, Refinery29, Bustle & Crime Reads and a Best Book of 2019 by Marie Claire.

Published in US by Simon & Schuster (HB Feb 2022, TPB Feb 2023) to extensive review coverage and critical acclaim. UK audio edition by W F Howes and US audio by S&S Audio.

 A mysterious First Lady. The intrepid journalist writing her biography. And the secret that could destroy them both. Tired of covering the grating dysfunction of Washington and the increasingly outageous antics of President Henry Caine, White House correspondent Sofie Morse quits her job and plans to leave politics behind.

 But when she gets a call from the office of First Lady Lara Caine, inviting her to come in for a private meeting with Lara, Sofie's curiosity is piqued. Sofie, like the rest of the world, knows little about Lara-only that she was born in Soviet Russia, raised in Paris, and worked as a model before moving to America and marrying the notoriously brash future president.

 When Lara asks Sofie to write her offical biography, and to finally fill in the gaps of her history, Sofie's curiosity gets the better of her, She begins to spend more and more time in the White House, slowly developing a bond with Lara. As Lara's story unfolds, Sofie can't help but wonder why Lara is rehashing such sensitive information. Why tell Sofie? And why now? Suddenly Sofie is in the middle of a game of cat and mouse that could have explosive ramifications.

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My Review:-Sofie Morse tells us the story, that take's us on a journey through 70s up to the present day, (3 timelines). Sofie has had enough of the behaviour of the racist President Henry Caine, she packs her bags, but First Lady Lara Caine asks her to come and see her, which makes Sofie wonder why, she has to find out. Lara wants Sofie to write her biography, Sofie wants to know more about Lara and agrees. Sofie wants to know who is the real Lara, Sofie wants to know about Lara's past in Russia and Paris. Sofie feels there is a bond building between them, or is there? We learn about Lara being the daughter of a Soviet official, a KGB member. Moving to Paris for her father's next mission. Sofie feels Lara is keeping something from her but she doesn't know what. I don't want to say anymore as you need to read it yourself, so I'm leaving it here. I must say I found parts of the story you could relate to what is going on in the world now. We have both Politics and Russian history in this book. This is my first book by Anna Pitoniak but I'll looking at more