"Bookish, aspirant, and close to broke, twenty-six-year-old Clemi has taken a job as the programs director at Washington Literary Nonprofit that was supposed to be a step forward in her literary-adjacent career. After leaving behind her position at a bookstore, Clemi has been especially looking forward to what her prestigious new role promises: a face-to-face meeting with her idol, Sveta Attais--a novelist whose latest buzzy work has earned her the nonprofit's annual fiction prize. But Clemi almost immediately finds herself in the bull's eye of a financial, legal, and existential calamity. The executive director has disappeared, leaving behind an inscrutable cat to which she is highly allergic. Meanwhile, the bank accounts have been overdrawn, the FBI is asking questions, and she has three days to pull off the annual fundraising gala--a glamorous affair filled with dIplomats, famous writers, and local literati. It is there that Sveta herself will be attending to accept her prize. Will Clemi almost single-handedly be able to keep the organization alive? Or will the absurd and unlikely events of the week land her in trouble, in jail, or worse?"--