--- product_id: 42374813 title: "You Will Know Me: A Novel" price: "Rp602491" currency: IDR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.id/products/42374813-you-will-know-me-a-novel store_origin: ID region: Indonesia --- # You Will Know Me: A Novel **Price:** Rp602491 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** You Will Know Me: A Novel - **How much does it cost?** Rp602491 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.id](https://www.desertcart.id/products/42374813-you-will-know-me-a-novel) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A "shocking and perfect" bestseller about family and ambition from the award-winning author of Dare Me and The Turnout ( New York Times Book Review ​). How far will you go to achieve a dream? That's the question a celebrated coach poses to Katie and Eric Knox after he sees their daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy and Olympic hopeful, compete. For the Knoxes there are no limits -- until a violent death rocks their close-knit gymnastics community and everything they have worked so hard for is suddenly at risk. As rumors swirl among the other parents, Katie tries frantically to hold her family together while also finding herself irresistibly drawn to the crime itself. What she uncovers -- about her daughter's fears, her own marriage, and herself -- forces Katie to consider whether there's any price she isn't willing to pay to achieve Devon's dream. From a writer with "exceptional gifts for making nerves jangle and skin crawl" (Janet Maslin), You Will Know Me is a breathless rollercoaster of a novel about the desperate limits of parental sacrifice, furtive desire, and the staggering force of ambition. Review: 4 Stars - The Knox family's entire life revolves around Devon's gymnastics training. Parents, Katie and Eric, spend every waking moment either working to pay for gymnastics or taking Devon to her countless hours of training. Little brother Drew is dragged along. They have very little life outside the training gym and the other gym families are really the only people they have time to socialize with. The other families are necessarily their friends, but their entire social life. Devon's coach thinks she may even be able to compete in the Olympics. In an attempt to help Devon realize her full potential, Katie and Eric not only sink every penny they have into her training but also, accumulate significant debt. After a mistake at a very important competition and with limited time left before she loses her gymnastics body to puberty, Devon doubles down on her training adding more stress to a household which is already stretched thin. With 6 weeks until the biggest competition of Devon's life and her time as a competitive gymnasts running out, a death within the gym family rocks their world and threatens to ruin their family. Well written, suspenseful and creepy. I liked it but it made me feel really uncomfortable in places, which I think was the authors intent. Worth reading. Review: Interesting, suck you in read with some interesting twists throughout - With the Olympics going on, I felt it was a just good timing to check out this book, which I purchased on Kindle from a deal found through the Modern Mrs. Darcy daily emails. Megan Abbott is not an author I have heard of before but I found the premise of the story to be interesting. And, again, timely what with the Olympics and all. This is a book with lots of twists, which makes me apprehensive to mention things due to worrying about a spoiler, so I will keep my discussions of specific book topics limited. This story has many parts to it. There is the Knox family- mom Kate, dad Eric, gymnastic prodigy Devon and the sometimes forgotten little brother Drew. All characters were interesting — not just the Knox family — and I found for the various characters to have good voices of their own. I love a good character driven story and I feel like this book had a great start at that and while the character development might not have been successful with each and every character, there were good advancements with some of the characters. Having said that, I did find that, throughout the last 2/3s of the book, I was feeling somewhat lost. You know how when you read a book and you forgot a specific detail — for example, a character shows up and you cannot recall who that person is [this did not happen with this story, just want to clarify — just the best example I could come up with with the feeling I had throughout this story] — and it shows up again and you’re racking your brain trying to recall why this person/detail/etc was important? I felt this throughout the majority of this book. I found that Eric was an interesting character and I wish there had been more development of him, and not just from Katie’s point of view of what was occurring. Once I had finished this book, I had wondered if this would have been improved by having that multiple POV quality. Now, a week or so later, I do not think it would have helped. I now feel that, instead, what this book was lacking, was closure on smaller details. There were so many different aspects of Katie’s past brought up but I never felt like the reason for mentioning those was needed. The only thing that I could come up with was to show how much birth, marriage, children really did change her, though I am not sure how related to the story it really was. I found Devon to be an interesting character and I feel like Megan Abbott did a very good job at giving out details when they were needed. I also found little brother, Drew, to be a fantastic character and wish there had been more about him throughout, instead of just using him as a (basically) plot device to keep the story moving forward. I give this book a 3 star rating overall. I found the premise to be a new take on a genre that (thrillers/mystery) that I love so much and the writing overall was very good. I am excited to read more from Megan Abbott in the future. I will not say that this book is perfect; as I said, there was just something…missing throughout this book that even a week+ later I cannot completely put my finger on. But I enjoyed reading it and found it to be a quick, suck you in read. I enjoy her take on women and find that Katie was a very interesting character who I would enjoy reading more about in the future. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,698,421 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #2,091 in Psychological Fiction (Books) #4,718 in Psychological Thrillers (Books) #9,370 in Suspense Thrillers | | Customer Reviews | 3.6 out of 5 stars 5,192 Reviews | ## Images ![You Will Know Me: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81H6YIMYOBL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4 Stars *by R***R on August 4, 2016* The Knox family's entire life revolves around Devon's gymnastics training. Parents, Katie and Eric, spend every waking moment either working to pay for gymnastics or taking Devon to her countless hours of training. Little brother Drew is dragged along. They have very little life outside the training gym and the other gym families are really the only people they have time to socialize with. The other families are necessarily their friends, but their entire social life. Devon's coach thinks she may even be able to compete in the Olympics. In an attempt to help Devon realize her full potential, Katie and Eric not only sink every penny they have into her training but also, accumulate significant debt. After a mistake at a very important competition and with limited time left before she loses her gymnastics body to puberty, Devon doubles down on her training adding more stress to a household which is already stretched thin. With 6 weeks until the biggest competition of Devon's life and her time as a competitive gymnasts running out, a death within the gym family rocks their world and threatens to ruin their family. Well written, suspenseful and creepy. I liked it but it made me feel really uncomfortable in places, which I think was the authors intent. Worth reading. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Interesting, suck you in read with some interesting twists throughout *by A***Y on August 24, 2016* With the Olympics going on, I felt it was a just good timing to check out this book, which I purchased on Kindle from a deal found through the Modern Mrs. Darcy daily emails. Megan Abbott is not an author I have heard of before but I found the premise of the story to be interesting. And, again, timely what with the Olympics and all. This is a book with lots of twists, which makes me apprehensive to mention things due to worrying about a spoiler, so I will keep my discussions of specific book topics limited. This story has many parts to it. There is the Knox family- mom Kate, dad Eric, gymnastic prodigy Devon and the sometimes forgotten little brother Drew. All characters were interesting — not just the Knox family — and I found for the various characters to have good voices of their own. I love a good character driven story and I feel like this book had a great start at that and while the character development might not have been successful with each and every character, there were good advancements with some of the characters. Having said that, I did find that, throughout the last 2/3s of the book, I was feeling somewhat lost. You know how when you read a book and you forgot a specific detail — for example, a character shows up and you cannot recall who that person is [this did not happen with this story, just want to clarify — just the best example I could come up with with the feeling I had throughout this story] — and it shows up again and you’re racking your brain trying to recall why this person/detail/etc was important? I felt this throughout the majority of this book. I found that Eric was an interesting character and I wish there had been more development of him, and not just from Katie’s point of view of what was occurring. Once I had finished this book, I had wondered if this would have been improved by having that multiple POV quality. Now, a week or so later, I do not think it would have helped. I now feel that, instead, what this book was lacking, was closure on smaller details. There were so many different aspects of Katie’s past brought up but I never felt like the reason for mentioning those was needed. The only thing that I could come up with was to show how much birth, marriage, children really did change her, though I am not sure how related to the story it really was. I found Devon to be an interesting character and I feel like Megan Abbott did a very good job at giving out details when they were needed. I also found little brother, Drew, to be a fantastic character and wish there had been more about him throughout, instead of just using him as a (basically) plot device to keep the story moving forward. I give this book a 3 star rating overall. I found the premise to be a new take on a genre that (thrillers/mystery) that I love so much and the writing overall was very good. I am excited to read more from Megan Abbott in the future. I will not say that this book is perfect; as I said, there was just something…missing throughout this book that even a week+ later I cannot completely put my finger on. But I enjoyed reading it and found it to be a quick, suck you in read. I enjoy her take on women and find that Katie was a very interesting character who I would enjoy reading more about in the future. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It's still haunting me, the way it should *by M***T on July 31, 2016* Megan Abbott doesn’t know me, and probably never will. Still, she owes me six hours of restful sleep. They were strange dreams I had last night. Not my routine searching-for-a-place-to-pee or getting-lost-in-a-building or trying-to-impress-my-father frustration scenarios. I shake those off soon as I'm awake and on my way to the bathroom. No sir/ma'am. These things last night were unfamiliar, deeply discomfiting, clinging dream fragments. Semi-conscious glimpses of something vaguely menacing. I can't recall any particulars, but whenever I woke, or seemed to be waking, I felt a presence near me. Hovering close to my head. A cold, mocking presence. And I was alone. No one to call out to, like Drew Knox did when he had his ghastly nightmares in You Will Know Me. It was You Will Know Me, of course, disturbing my sleep. I'd stayed up late finishing it. Something I seldom do. Something I knew I shouldn't do with a Megan Abbott novel, but something I know I'll do again, and again, and again, regardless. Abbot casts a deliciously unsettling spell I am powerless to resist. It comes upon me incrementally, hints revealed in what seems a perfectly ordinary tableau. Faces I recognize and feel I know. Until I notice something different. An odd glint in the eyes, shadows that lie beyond my first impression. Words in an unexpected, inappropriate context. The effect is cumulative, edging into my comprehension like a storm front blotting a sunny horizon. In You Will Know Me, Abbott reveals the suspicious cloud bank's nose at the very beginning: The vinyl banners rippled from the air vent, the restaurant roiling with parents, the bobbing of gymnast heads, music gushing from the weighty speakers keeled on the window ledges. Slung around Devon’s neck were three medals, two silver and one gold, her first regional-champion title on the vault. “I’m so proud of you, sweetie,” Katie whispered in her daughter’s ear. “You can do anything.” Later, Katie would come to think of that night as the key to everything that came after, the secret code. But at the time, it was just another party, a celebration like dozens of others, all to honor their exceptional fifteen-year-old daughter. Trouble ahead. Fair warning. And Abbott does play fair, all the way. The clues she scattered so artfully along the narrative create a random texture that now and then gave me the sense I was a step or two ahead of the main characters. Yet collectively these nebulous erratic whiffs of danger never quite coalesced into certainty. One thing, though, was for sure: a relentless encroaching unease weighting the air. A large part of the fragility of my confidence in the appearance of things in You Will Know Me came from the woman whose viewpoint carries most of the story--Katie, mother of Devon, the teenage gymnast prodigy and focus of everyone's concern. I shared Katie's bias as a mom, which included misinterpreting or rationalizing initial signs that raised tiny questions about the way things seemed. I stayed with her as these signs mounted until I began to see, or think I saw, significance Katie was missing. Now it got tricky for me. I could see the true narrator--Abbott--was being sly, smooth as satin, playing with me as she led Katie, and then me, this way and that until I yielded to her mastery and simply hung on for the ride. It helped calm me recognizing a couple of Abbott's ploys. She foreshadows by ducking back to an earlier time. The beginning, for example, gave me Katie already knowing how it all comes out reflecting how it all started. This happened several times, the finding clarity from a step or so back. I suppose it can confuse readers accustomed to strictly sequential narrative, but for me it helped bring into focus Katie's own attempts to understand what was happening as it unfolded around her. While all eyes ostensibly were on Devon, a fascinating individual around whom the story centers with its theme of how far people will go, what they're willing to accept and to sacrifice in order to realize a dream, I found Devon's younger brother, Drew, the most interesting character. Both as a person and as the character that ties the story together. He's a brilliant, precocious little nerd. In some settings he'd be an obnoxious little nerd, and sometimes he was that here, too. But the obnoxiousness, I eventually learned, was in fact a gift. Drew is a little oracle. His nightmares had a prescience I found unnerving, especially as it eluded, even annoyed his family. At the same time I came to respect his outlook, his observance of detail, and his native savvy. I came to rely on the little guy more and more as niggling suspicions began to gather, merging, fusing eventually into a roar of revelation that assaulted my own ears. "I could hear thousands of eyes watching us," gold medal Olympian Nadia Comaneci says in her book Letters to a Young Gymnast, a book Megan Abbott quotes from variously in You Will Know Me. I know I'll never get back those six hours of sleep Abbott took from me, and in truth their loss was a small price for the return. The vital human questions she raised in this all-too-human story continue echoing for me. 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