Susan Rigetti's debut novel 'Cover Story' is a frothy thriller
the Hulu series about Elizabeth Holmes and the lies on which she built Theranos, are two of the buzziest shows streaming right now—not to mention Showtime’sIn Cat, Rigetti has constructed a character who learned the inner workings of powerful institutions, from venture-capital funds to fashion media, and understood how she could manipulate them to fund her lavish lifestyle.
Rigetti remembers what it was like to be Lora’s age and to feel like an outsider just trying to get her foot in the door. The bulk of the book is written in the form of Lora’s diary entries, and Rigetti turned to her own journals from her youth to sift through vulnerable moments and develop Lora’s voice. She noticed her younger self’s fixation on being taken seriously. “You’re looking around, trying to figure out: How on earth do I fit into this?” she recalls.
As much as Rigetti identified with Lora, she also needed to understand Cat—this woman who’s fighting to keep her position in a moneyed world through lying, stealing, and adopting multiple identities. Rigetti had to ask herself: What makes a person choose that life? “Cat ends up doing terrible things, making a total mess of herself at a young age, piling on more and more until she’s in so deep that this is all she can do now,” she says. “She doesn’t see another way to live.
For one, she’s the center of a family. She married her husband Chad Rigetti, the founder of a quantum computing company, in 2017, and they’ve since had two children. She tried her hand at editing and now is focused on writing her own stories, working on fiction and screenplays. And she’s made a point to have more fun.
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