BOOK TALK: You Should Have Known

On the tail of her widely acclaimed novel “Admission,” which graced the big screen last year, Grand Central Publishing is thrilled to bring you Jean Hanff Korelitz’s latest novel, “You Should Have Known”. For anyone who has ever lied, or been lied to, in love, this book will ring true. For anyone who understands the complexities that exist in our interior world, as we process the world around us, Korelitz’s deeply layered literary thriller will strike a chord. Korelitz is known for “sublimely paced plotting,” (The Atlantic) and the ability to craft a “well-written…and extremely satisfying” (The Los Angeles Times) novel–and in “You Should Have Known,” she’s done it again.

Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, to their young son Henry, and to the patients she sees in her therapy practice, her days are full of familiar things: she lives in the very New York apartment in which she was raised and sends Henry to the Upper East Side private school she herself once attended. Dismayed by the ways in which women delude themselves, Grace is also the author of a book entitled “You Should Have Known,” in which she cautions women to really hear what men are trying to tell them. But weeks before the book is published a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only an ongoing chain of terrible revelations. In the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, and having to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.

“You Should Have Known” is a daring novel with unforgettable characters and a gripping storyline, which will have Gillian Flynn devotees and fans of authors like Meg Wolitzer enthralled.

CLICK HERE to read an excerpt.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Jean Hanff Korelitz was born and raised in New York and graduated from Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of one book of poems, “The Properties of Breath,” and four previous novels, “Admission,” “A Jury of Her Peers,” “The Sabbathday River” and “The White Rose,” as well as a novel for children, “Interference Powder.” She has also published essays in the anthologies “Modern Love” and “Because I Said So,” and in Vogue, Real Simple, More, Newsweek, Organic Style, Travel & Leisure (Family), and other magazines. Jean recently created and runs BOOKTHEWRITER, a service that enables book groups in New York City to invite an author to take part in their discussions (www.bookthewriter.com). She lives in Manhattan with her husband, the poet Paul Muldoon, and two children.

 

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