Who You Might Be
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ISBN10: 1250871476
ISBN13: 9781250871473
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Published: Jun 27 2023
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.83
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781250871473
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Published: Jun 27 2023
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.83
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Dazzling...Who You Might Be is a brilliant, splintery coming-of-age novel that perfectly captures the nervous thrum of adolescence and the unnerving fragility of adulthood. Gallagher is so acutely attuned to the lies (and secrets) we tell (and keep from) ourselves and others. It puts me in mind of Emma Cline and Rachel Kushner.--Award-winning author Peter Ho Davies
A fiercely original and propulsive debut novel about the unexpected turns in life that ultimately determine who we become. It's the late nineties--the dawn of the internet--and Judy and Meghan have lied to their mothers and run away for the weekend, to see a girl they've met in a chat room. Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Cassie, desperately clinging to childhood hopes, travels deep into the Nevada desert to reunite with her real mother at a strange and isolated compound. And, across the country, Caleb, an entitled teenager, is miserable following his family's move from upper-crust San Francisco to boring Ann Arbor--until, emboldened by privilege, his tours of blighted Detroit become graffiti-writing escapades, with his faithful little brother in tow. Each of these adventures derails in severe, alarming ways, only to resurface and collide two decades later in an unforgettable finale that explores the power--and limits--of the narratives that come to define us. Deftly written and peopled with precisely drawn, indelible characters pushed to great extremes, Leigh N. Gallagher's Who You Might Be considers the ramifications of life's most trying encounters and the resilience it takes to determine for ourselves who we might be.
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