Watching You Without Me, A novel

- Authors
- Lynn Coady
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Date
- 2020-07-07
- Size
- 1.21 MB
- Lang
- en
LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE!From the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning story collection Hellgoing—an electrifying, brooding novel about the lengths we go to care for family, and what happens when a stranger places himself at the center of one household. "Watching You Without Me is like a Lorrie Moore book suffering a Patricia Highsmith fever dream. You slide right along on Coady's witty and endearing style, and meanwhile the trap has closed over you without your ever standing a chance." —Jonathan LethemAfter her mother's sudden death, Karen finds herself back in her childhood home in Nova Scotia for the first time in a decade, acting as full-time caregiver to her older sister, Kelli. Overwhelmed and consumed by the isolation of her new role, Karen finds a shoulder to cry on in Trevor—one of Kelli's caregivers. Karen gratefully accepts his friendship and comes to trust him all the more when she discovers how...