In the latest entry in Caroline Kepnes’ You series, For You and Only You, out April 25, Joe Goldberg takes that phrase literally when the former bookseller turned serial killer tries his hand at writing a novel after he somehow gets into a prestigious MFA program at Harvard, because Joe is nothing if not an upward failure.īut let’s backtrack a bit. You is a compulsively readable page-turner that’s being compared to Gone Girl, American Psycho, and Stephen King’s Misery.“Kill your darlings” is a mantra for writers whereby they take the proverbial red pen to characters, plots, paragraphs, and lines that no longer serve the story arc. 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.Ī 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.
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.Īs 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. There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. 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. The rare instance when prose and plot are equally delicious.” -Lena Dunhamįrom 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.
“I am RIVETED, AGHAST, AROUSED, you name it.
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