You Will Know Me
A Novel
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3.7 • 307 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A captivating bestseller about family and ambition from the award-winning author of Dare Me and The Turnout.
"Shocking and perfect." —New York Times Book Review?
How far will you go to achieve a dream? That's the question a celebrated coach poses to Katie and Eric Knox after he sees their daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy and Olympic hopeful, compete. For the Knoxes there are no limits—until a violent death rocks their close-knit gymnastics community and everything they have worked so hard for is suddenly at risk.
As rumors swirl among the other parents, Katie tries frantically to hold her family together while also finding herself irresistibly drawn to the crime itself. What she uncovers—about her daughter's fears, her own marriage, and herself—forces Katie to consider whether there's any price she isn't willing to pay to achieve Devon's dream.
From a writer with "exceptional gifts for making nerves jangle and skin crawl" (Janet Maslin), You Will Know Me is a breathless rollercoaster of a novel about the desperate limits of parental sacrifice, furtive desire, and the staggering force of ambition.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This breakneck psychological thriller crackles with tension and family secrets. You Will Know Me centers around the middle-class Knox family and its determination to see their singularly focused gymnast daughter Devon reach the Olympics. But the talented Megan Abbott has more on her mind than pushy sports parents and ambitious kids. She’s interested in capturing American suburbia in a vivid and unsettling way, using a grisly murder to unleash an avalanche of shocking drama that threatens more than just gold-medal dreams.
Customer Reviews
Very slow
Finished it just to finish it. Very slow and too wordy.
The World of Sport Parenting...
I had a hard time caring about these characters. The situations that occurred, past and present, weren’t well-defined enough to draw me in, and there were things that happened that weren’t resolved. Perhaps it’s the fact that I’ve never really been in the sports parent world that it was uninteresting for me.
Great book- until the end
I really liked the book- its one of those mysteries where everyone seems guilty but the ending fell flat. It was as if the author got tired of writing and just ended the book. That was such a disappointment.