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You're Not You

You're Not You

Wildgen, Michelle

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $21.99

ISBN10: 0312369522
ISBN13: 9780312369521
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Jul 24 2007
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Michelle Wildgen's debut novel You're Not You is a complex and satisfying dish: a story of intimate strangers and their impact on each other's lives (O, The Oprah Magazine).

Now a major motion picture directed by George C. Wolfe, produced by Denise Di Novi and starring Hilary Swank, Josh Duhamel and Emmy Rossum.

Bec is adrift. It's the summer before her junior year in college. She's sleeping with a married professor, losing interest in her classes, and equivocating about her career. She takes a job caring for Kate, a thirty-six-year-old woman who has been immobilized by ALS.

As it turns out, before the disease Kate was a stylish and commanding woman, an advertising executive and an accomplished chef. Now, as she and Bec spend long days together, Bec begins to absorb Kate's sophistication and her sensuality, cooking for her, sharing her secrets, and gradually beginning to live her own life with a boldness informed by Kate's influence. The more intense her commitment to Kate, the further Bec strays from the complacency of her college life. And when Kate's marriage veers into dangerous territory, Bec will have to choose between the values of her old life and the allure of an entirely new one.

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