You Were Made for This
Autor Michelle Sacksen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 mai 2019
Doting wife, devoted husband, cherished child. Merry, Sam, and Conor are the perfect family in the perfect place. Merry adores the domestic life: baking, gardening, caring for her infant son. Sam, formerly an academic, is pursuing a new career as a filmmaker. Sometimes they can hardly believe how lucky they are. What perfect new lives they've built.
When Merry's childhood friend Frank visits their Swedish paradise, she immediately becomes part of the family. She bonds with Conor. And with Sam. She befriends the neighbors, and even finds herself embracing the domesticity she's always seemed to scorn.
All their lives, Frank and Merry have been more like sisters than best friends. And that's why Frank soon sees the things others might miss. Treacherous things, which are almost impossible to believe when looking at this perfect family. But Frank, of all people, knows that the truth is rarely what you want the world to see.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316475419
ISBN-10: 0316475416
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 138 x 208 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 0316475416
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 138 x 208 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
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Notă biografică
Michelle
Sackswas
born
in
South
Africa,
and
holds
a
master's
degree
in
literature
and
film
from
the
University
of
Cape
Town.
Her
fiction
has
been
shortlisted
for
the
Commonwealth
Short
Story
Prize
and
for
two
South
African
PEN
Literary
Awards.
Michelle's
short
story
collectionStone
Babywas
published
in
2017.
Recenzii
"A
worthy
page-turner...Sacks
stuffs
her
sentences
with
intrigue
and
terror,
and
her
prose
effortlessly
weaves
between
each
of
the
narrators,
giving
them
a
distinct
voice
that's
all-too-easy
to
be
convinced
by.
She
keeps
you
on
the
edge
of
your
seat
as
the
tension
ratchets
up...A
gripping,
smart,
dire
family
drama."—David
Canfield,Entertainment
Weekly
"Haunting...Sacks deftly engages the complexities of motherhood, infidelity, and misconduct in this novel. Her storytelling shines most when Merry's alleged closest friend, Frank, arrives for a visit...Sacks explores the ways in which unhealthy relationships can wreak irrevocable damage on those involved--and everyone surrounding."—Megan McCluskey, TIME Magazine
"An engrossing tale that probes the darker corners of motherhood, friendship, and marriage."—Good Housekeeping
"Riveting...Devastating and unpredictable...Michelle Sacks richly explores marriage and parenting and delivers a brilliant, unflinching look at a household under siege from itself."—Associated Press
"Sacks proves herself to be an expert of both language and atmosphere. By turns mesmerizing and horrifying,You Were Made for Thisconfronts the dark truths behind motherhood, marriage and female friendship with disquieting lyricism...Margaret Atwood'sCat's Eyemeets the set of a David Lynch film in this haunting, psychological portrait that takes the dark domestic thriller into a new, literary realm."—Alice Martin,Shelf Awareness, starred review
"Beguiling and frightening.... Hardto read but also bewitchingly hard to put down-a fitting contradiction in anovel that explores the corruption at the heart of beauty."—Kirkus Reviews
"Haunting...Though Sacks doesn't give readers anyone to root for, her unblinking look at beautiful people with ugly secrets has thevoyeuristic fascination of a Bergman film."—Publishers Weekly
"Insightfuland skillfully constructed... this will keep readers rapt to the final page."—Booklist
"The horrors of this rural paradise break free into the fresh Nordic air. A brilliant debut: crisp writing, a deliciously dark story."—Sarah Murdoch,Toronto Star
"A sinister, razor's edge of a book. I was, in turn, totally gripped, completely unsettled, and not just a little freaked out by these brutal characters and the damage they did to themselves and each other. Whatever you feel while reading this dark, twisting story, you definitely won't be able to put it down."—Lisa Unger,New York Times bestselling author of The Red Hunter
"Set in an idyllic Swedish forest straight out of a fairy tale,You Were Made For Thisis a taut novel of deception, full of heart-wrenching twists and turns. Michelle Sacks shows us that happy families are not always what they seem and explores the dark shadows that lurk within the fairy tale, and in human nature, in this richly compelling debut."—Jennifer McMahon,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Winter People
"You Were Made For Thisis a thrilling literary fairytale from which you can't escape, not even after you've found your way back to the light of day. The warning is right there in the novel's epigraph: 'You must always go carefully into the dark Swedish woods.' And then in you go, forgetting to leave bread crumbs behind you, until soon you are lost in Sacks' fascinating domestic dreamscape, a dark and deceptive place where old wounds, secrets, and the seeds of violence are cooked up and jarred and stowed in plain sight, yet fill your heart with dread at every turn."—Tim Johnston,New York Times bestselling author of Descent
"You Were Made For Thisplumbs the darkness that can lie at the core of the most intimate of relationships: between husband and wife, lifelong friends, even mother and child. Michelle Sacks has a gift for empathy, and her broken sinners are so tenderly drawn that even at their worst they remain heartbreakingly human. She's also written the most complex and relatable female friendship I've read in years."—Heather Young,The Strand Critics' Award winner for The Lost Girls
"Haunting...Sacks deftly engages the complexities of motherhood, infidelity, and misconduct in this novel. Her storytelling shines most when Merry's alleged closest friend, Frank, arrives for a visit...Sacks explores the ways in which unhealthy relationships can wreak irrevocable damage on those involved--and everyone surrounding."—Megan McCluskey, TIME Magazine
"An engrossing tale that probes the darker corners of motherhood, friendship, and marriage."—Good Housekeeping
"Riveting...Devastating and unpredictable...Michelle Sacks richly explores marriage and parenting and delivers a brilliant, unflinching look at a household under siege from itself."—Associated Press
"Sacks proves herself to be an expert of both language and atmosphere. By turns mesmerizing and horrifying,You Were Made for Thisconfronts the dark truths behind motherhood, marriage and female friendship with disquieting lyricism...Margaret Atwood'sCat's Eyemeets the set of a David Lynch film in this haunting, psychological portrait that takes the dark domestic thriller into a new, literary realm."—Alice Martin,Shelf Awareness, starred review
"Beguiling and frightening.... Hardto read but also bewitchingly hard to put down-a fitting contradiction in anovel that explores the corruption at the heart of beauty."—Kirkus Reviews
"Sacks'sfirst
novel
expertly
portrays
the
dark
side
of
domesticity
and
motherhood...
Fansof
dark
and
twisted
psychological
thrillers
will
be
swept
up
in
the
appearanceof
domestic
bliss
and
maternal
perfection,
only
to
be
left
off-kilter
andbreathless
with
each
costume
change."
—Library
Journal"Haunting...Though Sacks doesn't give readers anyone to root for, her unblinking look at beautiful people with ugly secrets has thevoyeuristic fascination of a Bergman film."—Publishers Weekly
"Insightfuland skillfully constructed... this will keep readers rapt to the final page."—Booklist
"The horrors of this rural paradise break free into the fresh Nordic air. A brilliant debut: crisp writing, a deliciously dark story."—Sarah Murdoch,Toronto Star
"A sinister, razor's edge of a book. I was, in turn, totally gripped, completely unsettled, and not just a little freaked out by these brutal characters and the damage they did to themselves and each other. Whatever you feel while reading this dark, twisting story, you definitely won't be able to put it down."—Lisa Unger,New York Times bestselling author of The Red Hunter
"Set in an idyllic Swedish forest straight out of a fairy tale,You Were Made For Thisis a taut novel of deception, full of heart-wrenching twists and turns. Michelle Sacks shows us that happy families are not always what they seem and explores the dark shadows that lurk within the fairy tale, and in human nature, in this richly compelling debut."—Jennifer McMahon,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Winter People
"You
Were
Made
for
Thisdeftly
explores
the
darkest
corners
of
domestic
life
through
the
eyes
of
three
complicated,
damaged
souls,
inextricably
connected
by
obsession,
loyalty,
jealousy,
and
unspeakable
secrets.
The
savage
beauty
of
Michelle
Sacks's
prose
nestled
within
the
most
chilling
of
stories
will
leave
you
shaken
and
bereft.
It
is
a
stunning
accomplishment."
—Heather
Gudenkauf,New
York
Times
and
USA
Today
bestselling
author
of
The
Weight
of
Silence"You Were Made For Thisis a thrilling literary fairytale from which you can't escape, not even after you've found your way back to the light of day. The warning is right there in the novel's epigraph: 'You must always go carefully into the dark Swedish woods.' And then in you go, forgetting to leave bread crumbs behind you, until soon you are lost in Sacks' fascinating domestic dreamscape, a dark and deceptive place where old wounds, secrets, and the seeds of violence are cooked up and jarred and stowed in plain sight, yet fill your heart with dread at every turn."—Tim Johnston,New York Times bestselling author of Descent
"You Were Made For Thisplumbs the darkness that can lie at the core of the most intimate of relationships: between husband and wife, lifelong friends, even mother and child. Michelle Sacks has a gift for empathy, and her broken sinners are so tenderly drawn that even at their worst they remain heartbreakingly human. She's also written the most complex and relatable female friendship I've read in years."—Heather Young,The Strand Critics' Award winner for The Lost Girls