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Jessica Knoll: Screenwriter and New York Times Best-Selling Author of Luckiest Girl Alive and The Favorite Sister

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I Think My Mother-in-Law Is Trying to Kill Me

"I just want to write something that's funny and surprising, but also has a smart message," she said. "It was probably the most fun I've ever had, especially with Lucky Us Girl." The book is based on a Reddit thread about her mother-in-law trying to kill her. She says it subverts this very sexist trope we have about the mother- in-law.

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