Pub. Date: December 6th, 2016
Pages: 416
Genre: Mystery / Thriller / Suspense
A page-turner about the murder of a teenage girl, from the author of Lacy Eye.
On a cold December day in northern upstate New York, the body of high school senior Joy Enright is discovered in the woods at the edge of a pond. She had been presumed drowned, but an autopsy shows that she was, in fact, strangled. As the investigation unfolds, four characters tell the story from widely divergent perspectives: Susanne, Joy's mother and a professor at the local art college; Martin, a black graduate student suspected of the murder; Harper, Joy's best friend and a potential eyewitness; and Tom, a rescue diver and son-in-law of the town's police chief. As a web of small-town secrets comes to light, a dramatic conclusion reveals the truth about Joy's death.
Early Praise for How Will I Know You?
"Jessica Treadway draws her characters into an impossible knot and then expertly teases it apart. The question of what really happened to Joy kept me up half the night.” —Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of State of Wonder
"Sometimes a book pulls you in so deep that it's hard to let go. HOW WILL I KNOW YOU? is such a book. A mystery story, yes, but more than that, a compassionate, wise study of humans under pressure. I read furiously to find out the truth about the central crime, and I read slowly to savor Treadway's many stunning insights. A wondrous book!” —Robin Black, author of Life Drawing and If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
"Exceptional...[Treadway's] ability to define meaningful characters stands out, and the ending is a shock.” —RT Book Reviews
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About the Author
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Jessica Treadway is the author of Lacy Eye, And Give You Peace, and two story collections, Absent Without Leave and Other Stories and Please Come Back to Me, which received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. A professor at Emerson College in Boston, she lives with her husband in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Learn more about Jessica on her website.
It's Giveaway Time!!
Thanks to Tiffany Sanchez at Hachette Book Group I have two (2!) copies of How Will I Know You? to giveaway today (US/CAN only)! All you have to do is enter your name and email address on the giveaway form HERE. Please be sure to leave both your name and your email on the form so I can contact you if you are my winner (no email address, no entry!). For extra entries you can follow the blog in various ways (links are on the right hand sidebar) and leave the name/email you follow with on the form. That's it!
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I'll use a random number generator to pick two winners on December 13th, 2016 and will announce the winner here as well as email the winners. The winners will then have 48 hours to respond to my email with their full mailing address. If you have already won this giveaway on another site please let me know so I can pick a new winner and give someone else a chance to win a copy of this great book.
Good Luck!!
I'm so happy to announce that my two winners for a copy of How Will I Know You? are....Kimberly V and Stephanie H!! Congrats, ladies! I've sent you both an email so please respond back in the next 48 hours with your mailing address.
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