Length10h 46m
About this audiobook
One viral story. One detail she didn’t write. One woman who can no longer pretend it doesn’t matter.
She has written thousands of words she didn’t believe. That was the job. That was fine.
Until one of them went viral.
When senior speechwriter Nadia Osei shapes a story about Senator Callahan’s mother and Alzheimer’s into polished, deployable emotion, she is doing what she has always done: translating a life into language that lands. But the senator adds a single detail she didn’t write—a blue cardigan—and the clip reaches forty-seven million people in ten days. A journalist starts asking questions. A woman in Cincinnati weeps on television. The senator surges seven points in the polls.
And Nadia cannot stop asking: where did the cardigan come from?
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length10 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 17, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
15Chapter 13: Kowalski
2Acknowledgments
16Chapter 14: Testimony
3Chapter 1: Before the Metrics
17Chapter 15: Version Control
4Chapter 2: Drafting
18Chapter 16: The Approval Rating
5Chapter 3: The Columbus Transcript
19Chapter 17: The Correction
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6Chapter 4: Overnight
20Chapter 18: The Rebuttal
7Chapter 5: The Question of the Cardigan
21Chapter 19: What Carol Knew
8Chapter 6: Engagement
22Chapter 20: Attribution
9Chapter 7: First Person
23Chapter 21: The Essay
10Chapter 8: The Analyst
24Chapter 22: Priya
11Chapter 9: Opposition Research
25Chapter 23: The Senator
12Chapter 10: What He Said
26Chapter 24: The Metrics
13Chapter 11: The Draft History
27Character Guide
14Chapter 12: Marcus
28References & Bibliography
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