NOW A HIT NETFLIX SERIES “Hypnotic and scary.” –Stephen King
“I am RIVETED, AGHAST, AROUSED, you name it. The rare instance when prose and plot are equally delicious.” –Lena Dunham
From 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.
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.
There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. 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.
As 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. 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.
A 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. You is a compulsively readable page-turner
that's being compared to Gone Girl, American Psycho, and Stephen
King's Misery.
Author Biography
Caroline Kepnes is from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Her first novel You was
translated into nineteen languages, shortlisted for a CWA New Blood Award, and
made into a TV series airing on Lifetime. Her second novel Hidden Bodies is a
sequel that Booklist describes as “the love child of Holden Caulfield and
Patrick Bateman.” Her most recent novel is Providence. Caroline earned a BA in
American Civilization at Brown University and worked as a pop culture journalist
on Entertainment Weekly and a TV writer on 7th Heaven. She now writes full-time
and lives in Los Angeles.
