How Will I Know You? by Jessica Treadway

How Will I Know You? by Jessica Treadway

A People Magazine "Book of the Week."



"Jessica Treadway draws her characters into an impossible knot and then expertly teases apart...kept me up half the night." -- Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth



Fans of Reconstructing Amelia will love this pulse-pounding novel of mystery, betrayal, and a small town's dark secrets.



On a cold December day, the body of high school senior Joy Enright is discovered in the woods at the edge of a frozen pond. Her death looks like a tragic drowning accident at first, but an autopsy reveals something sinister -- the teenager's body shows unmistakable signs of strangulation. The discovery upends an otherwise uneventful small town, as police grapple with a rare homicide case and those closest to Joy wonder how she could have been taken from them -- and by whom. Susanne, Joy's mother, tries to reconcile past betrayals with their wrenching consequences. Martin, an African-American graduate student, faces ostracism when blame is cast on him. Tom, a rescue diver and son-in-law of the town's police chief, doubts both the police's methods and his own perceptions. And Harper, Joy's best friend, tries to figure out why she disappeared from Harper's life months before she actually went missing.



In a close-knit community where everyone knows someone else's secret, it's only a matter of time before the truth is exposed. In this gripping novel, author Jessica Treadway explore the ways in which families both thrive and falter, and how seemingly small bad choices can escalate - with fatal consequences.

Jessica Treadway, a professor of creative writing at Emerson College in Boston, won the Flannery O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction for her story collection Please Come Back to Me, which was released by University of Georgia Press in 2010. Her other works include the novel And Give You Peace (Graywolf Press, 2001), which was named to Booklist's Top 10 Debut Novels of 2001, and the collection Absent Without Leave (Delphinium Books/Simon & Schuster), which won the John C. Donnelly Award. Ploughshares awarded Zacharis the First Book Prize in 1993. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Atlantic, The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Five Points, Glimmer Train, AGNI, Shenandoah, and Bellevue Literary Review. The National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council have both given Treadway funds.

She was a previous member of the PEN New England Board of Directors, where she was co-chair of the Freedom to Write Committee. She resides in the city of Lexington, Massachusetts.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781455554119
ISBN 10	1455554111
Title	How Will I Know You?
Author	Jessica Treadway
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Time Warner Trade Publishing
Year published	2016-12-06
Number of pages	416
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.