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How Do I Know You?
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781972806173
Publisher: Sūtra House
Published: Oct 20 2026
Pages: 322
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
We nod. We wave. We do not ask.
September, in a suburb west of Philadelphia. An old cemetery lies at the center of the neighborhood, and the people who live around it go there every day: to run, to grieve, to rehearse, to be alone.
A drama teacher directing The Crucible and quietly losing her nerve, in a house her children have left. A retired scientist trying to prove his body still works, a year into a retirement he never asked for. A hospital chaplain carrying something she has told no one. A teenage boy who comes to say his lines aloud where nobody will look at him strangely.
For weeks they pass one another. They nod. They do not stop. Then one night in late autumn, something happens that none of them can walk away from.
By November they will know each other's names, and what it cost to learn them.
How Do I Know You? is a debut novel about recognition and belonging, and the distance between the two, for readers of Tom Lake, Hello Beautiful, and The Story of Arthur Truluv.
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