NSFW is sort of The Devil Wears Prada set in the Hollywood TV industry leading up to the #metoo movement.
The unnamed protagonist is a recent Harvard grad who lands an entry-level job thanks to her prominent feminist lawyer/victim rights advocate (sort of a Gloria Allred facsimile) mother’s connections with a studio exec.
Sharp, at times darkly funny, and a quick read at fewer than 300 pages if not exactly a fresh take. NSFW does a good job of showing how inescapable and rampant sexism and abuse is within high pressure patriarchal industries like show business.
I found the most interesting angle of the story to be the complicated relationship between the protagonist and her mother whose brand of feminism is outdated and out of touch at best, ancillary to abusive systems at worst.
Thanks to Henry Holt Books for the advanced review copy.
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