{"id":2219,"date":"2022-03-17T02:16:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T02:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:48:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:48:25","slug":"complicit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2219","title":{"rendered":"Complicit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeats\u2019 haunting line about two sisters, \u201cboth beautiful, one a gazelle,\u201d comes to mind when reading this story that deeply explores the decisions made by two women caught in the orbit of lecherous Hollywood men. Our narrator, Sarah Lai, and her boss, Sylvia Zimmerman, are similar to a point. They\u2019re both striving film producers, with Sylvia ahead by years when she hires Sarah, a nervous ivy-league graduate whose parents run a restaurant. They both hate what women endure in the industry, from being passed over in favor of less-talented men to navigating those men\u2019s sense of sexual entitlement. While they ruefully believe that \u201cyou have to do what you have to do\u201d if you still want a job, it\u2019s in their reactions to this rule that the women diverge. Via flashbacks from Sarah\u2019s regret-filled current life teaching film at a B-list school, we visit her #metoo years as told to a journalist who\u2019s writing an expose of that time. We know from the start that something untoward happened, but Li (<em>Dark Chapter<\/em>) reveals the facts in a tantalizing slow drip. The shock and dread build, helped along by lines such as \u201cHis British accent slithers out at me.\u201d <strong>For those who\u2019ve lived #metoo, you\u2019ll find your experience put to paper, and for those who think it\u2019s exaggerated, you might finally get it.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeats\u2019 haunting line about two sisters, \u201cboth beautiful, one a gazelle,\u201d comes to mind when reading this story that deeply explores the decisions made by two women caught in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-thrillers-psychological"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Complicit-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Complicit-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}