Amanda Wakes Up: A Novel
Written by Alisyn Camerota
Narrated by Alisyn Camerota and Lu Hanessian
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"A hilarious, eye-opening glimpse into the TV-news trenches, from one who's had to navigate them backwards and in heels."
—Samantha Bee, host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and author of I Know I Am, but What Are You?
When Amanda Gallo, fresh from the backwater of local TV, lands the job of her dreams at FAIR News—the coveted morning anchor slot—she's finally made it: a six-figure salary, wardrobe allowance, plenty of on-air face time, and a chance to realize her dreams, not to mention buy herself lunch. Amanda Wakes Up takes off as Amanda feels for the first time that she can make her mom and her best friend proud and think about an actual future with her boyfriend, Charlie. But she finds her journalistic ideals shredded as she struggles to keep up with the issues in a ratings-crazed madhouse—battling for hair and makeup time, coping with her sexist (but scathingly handsome) coanchor, Rob, mixing up the headlines with pajama modeling on the street, and showing Benji Diggs, her media maestro boss, that she's got what it takes.
As the news heats up in a hotly contested election season and a wild-card candidate, former Hollywood actor Victor Fluke, appears on the scene, Amanda's pressure-cooker job gets hotter as her personal life unravels. Walking a knife's edge between ambition and survival, and about to break the biggest story of her career, Amanda must decide what she's willing to give up to get ahead—and what she needs to hold on to save herself.
Alisyn Camerota
Alisyn Camerota is a journalist, author, anchor and correspondent for CNN. In her three decades in journalism, Camerota has covered stories nationally and internationally, earning two Emmy Awards and the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award. Alisyn’s debut novel, Amanda Wakes Up, was selected by National Public Radio as one of the best books of 2017, and by Oprah Magazine as “a must read.” Her memoir Combat Love is set to be published in March 2024.
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Reviews for Amanda Wakes Up
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I found this to be a very enjoyable story that held my interest and was funny and entertaining.Right off the bat, Amanda Gallo, a reporter for a sub-par news agency, is called to investigate and report a bank robbery that just happens to be 10 minutes away from her friend's house where she has spent the night. Unfortunately, Amanda went to her friend's house thinking they were only going to go swimming and hit some local bars. So . . . dressed in all that she has with her, a bikini, a T-shirt and flip flops, Amanda shows up ready to report. Unfortunately, what she thought was going to be a phoned in report turns into a live camera report. Her reputation is set, she is now known as the girl who reports without pants. Ha!!This is just the beginning of the laughs that are abound in this very entertaining book. And, I LOVED "the dangle".Thanks to Penguin Group/Viking and Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was a fun read, well listen too as I purchased the audiobook. The narrating was very good and I enjoyed Amanda's awakening, not only in her career but with her personal relationships.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In this novel by a television journalist who has cohosted morning shows on CNN and FOX, a frothy personal story of ambition and romance overlies a serious examination of journalistic ethics. After the main character, Amanda, scores a top job at a new network called FAIR, she begins to discover that motives for presenting both sides of a story may not be as neutral as they seem—especially when proponents on one side are being disingenuous. The story takes place during a fictional campaign season, with political newcomer Victor Fluke facing off against veteran politician Virginia Wynn. These characters seem like obvious stand-ins for Trump and Clinton, but astonishingly, Camerota wrote the story before the 2016 election.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Since so many of us have been consumed watching cable news since the election of 2016, the timing of CNN morning show New Day anchor Alisyn Camerota’s debut novel about a young cable news reporter “Amanda Wakes Up” is fortunate. Camerota has worked for many news organizations- Fox, CNN, ABC, MSNBC- and she gives the reader an insider’s look at what that is like. Amanda Gallo works for a small local NYC TV news station when she finds herself the only reporter on scene at a bank robbery in progress.Her reporting lands her a job as a morning anchor at FAIR News, a new cable news network trying to make a big splash in a crowded space. Her boss wants to score huge ratings, her male cohost is a sexist blowhard, her liberal boyfriend is unhappy that she works for a company pushing a conservative agenda, and her best friend is a producer at a competing news organization who believes in anything for a story.Camerota wrote “Amanda Wakes Up” following the 2012 election, but so many of the things that happen in the story are eerily prescient to the 2016 election. She sheds a compassionate light on people on both side of the issues, something that many people in the media have been unable to accomplish. If you are a cable news junkie, this one is for you, although I found the ending a little too pat.