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 The Plot is a 2021 thriller novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz about a once-promising writer named Jacob Finch Bonner who is reduced to teaching in a MFA course at a small liberal arts college in Vermont. One of his students, Evan Parker, is scornful of his advice and says that he doesn't really need this course because he has a surefire plot that will make his book a bestseller. Jacob is skeptical until he hears the plot of the book—and then he realizes that Evan is right. When Evan leaves the class, Jacob is resigned to the fact that he will soon hear about the impending publication of Evan's novel, but nothing happens.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Years later, Jacob discovers that Evan has died without publishing anything, so Jacob goes on to write his own novel based on Evan's plot. Sure enough, it becomes just as big a bestseller as Evan predicted. Everything in Jacob's life is changing for the better until one day he gets an anonymous e-mail with a simple message: "You are a thief." Now Jacob must find out who this mysterious troll is who knows his secret before his life and career are destroyed.
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 Offing the Offspring: In the book-within-the-book, Diandre/Samantha kills her daughter Ruby/Maria. In the book itself, Dianna kills her daughter Rose and assumes her identity, using her daughter's scholarship at the University of Georgia.
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 Lampshade Hanging: When describing how her mother committed suicide by driving into a lake and that she and her sister were raised by an aunt who could not take care of herself, Anna calls these things "Something out of a novel." She is literally telling the truth since Anna is blatantly stealing the plot of Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson. It's a clue deliberately left by both character and author that something is amiss in Anna's past. The very title of this chapter is "Something Out Of A Novel" which also turns out to be a hint.
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 The Hero Dies: Jacob is drugged by his wife Anna and then given a lethal overdose. Anna then reveals herself to be Dianna, Evan Parker's sister upon whose life his story and later Jacob's book Crib is based on.
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