“Phoebe Greenwood, a former staff editor and correspondent for the Guardian, swings for the bleachers with Vulture, her audacious debut novel, which is Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 meets Fleabag. Sara Byrne is an acerbic, unstable freelance journalist from England assigned to cover the escalating tensions after the Israeli government kills Hamas commander Ahmed Al Jabari in November 2012. Now stationed at The Beach Hotel in Gaza, she’s surrounded by fellow war reporters, photographers, and fixers... Vulture is not for the easily queasy. Readers can expect comically rendered bad behavior, graphic bodily functions, and the devastating cruelties and tragedies of war. In Greenwood's keen and capable hands, the effortless prose makes the story all the more impactful.”
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