Once she graduated, she attended Brown University. The author had not only lost her father but had gone through other personal challenges at that point in her life. She explains that the book was composed during one of the darker times of her life. The book deconstructs some romantic and comedy tropes that have been featured in different series or movies by making the main male lead a stalker with violent tendencies. She says that obviously You had dark tones to it.

and in 2014 was named one of the best books of the year by Suspense Magazine. You made a short list for the New Blood Award, given out by the C.W.A. The novel was a major success and did so well that it was translated into over a dozen languages. You is a compulsively readable page-turner that’s being compared to Gone Girl, American Psycho, and Stephen King’s Misery.Hailing from Cape Cod in the state of Massachusetts, Caroline officially became an author with the release of her fictional first book You. Moving from stalker to boyfriend, Joe transforms himself into Beck’s perfect man, all while quietly removing the obstacles that stand in their way-even if it means murder.Ī terrifying exploration of how vulnerable we all are to stalking and manipulation, debut author Caroline Kepnes delivers a razor-sharp novel for our hyper-connected digital age. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives on Bank Street, and she’ll be at a bar in Brooklyn tonight-the perfect place for a “chance” meeting.Īs Joe invisibly and obsessively takes control of Beck’s life, he orchestrates a series of events to ensure Beck finds herself in his waiting arms. There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card. The rare instance when prose and plot are equally delicious.” -Lena Dunhamįrom debut author Caroline Kepnes comes You, one of Suspense Magazine’s Best Books of the Year, and a brilliant and terrifying novel for the social media age. “I am RIVETED, AGHAST, AROUSED, you name it.

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