How Far She’s Come by Holly Brown
Twenty-four Cheyenne Florian couldn’t be more surprised when
she is recruited to be a new personality on the new INN, Independent News
network “Because independent thinking is the only way out”. Billionaire Edwin Gordon, founder and owner
of the station, flies to California where he interviews Cheyenne on his private
plane after watching her vlogs which show her to be an opinionated young woman
of convictions. Cheyenne thinks INN is a
completely different type of network, but when she arrives in New York, she
finds the same old things: women who are jealous and suspicious, men who are
happy to leer at her, and show hosts afraid she’ll displace them. An anonymous delivery of a diary from 1991,
written by a Elyse Rohrbach, a female newscaster, becomes a cautionary tale for Cheyenne, and as she
reads, Cheyenne realizes the events in the diary creepily mirror what is
happening to Cheyenne in present day, without her necessarily realizing
it. The plot, inspired by the #metoo
movement is sometimes too subtle, and often times too obvious; Cheyenne is a
strong young woman with a lot of inner character and nerves of steel making the
plot plausible and a little too real.
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