At CrimeReads he tagged six dark titles about motherhood, including:
You Will Know Me, Megan AbbottRead about another entry on the list.
By the time Megan Abbott released You Will Know Me in 2016, she had made the jump from hardboiled noirs set in the very grown up worlds of the first half of 20th century America to modern stories about teenage girls, which, as it turned out, were no less shadowy or treacherous.
As with the three novels that preceded it, You Will Know Me is set amongst an extremely cloistered hothouse society—in this case, the world of teenage gymnastics—only here, the protagonist is one of the adults. Along with her husband, Katie Knox has dedicated the majority of her time, resources and energy to her daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy who seems destined for Olympic glory…until the suspicious murder of a handsome young training assistant threatens to burn their entire world down. In attempting to unravel the mystery surrounding her daughter role in the death, Katie discovers what her all her sacrifices has truly begot.
In its sympathetic but unblinking examination of a mother undone by the brilliant monster she helped create, You Will Know Me is the spiritual successor to Mildred Pierce, bringing this list full circle.
You Will Know Me is among Alison Wisdom's nine coming-of-age stories about girls who do bad things.
--Marshal Zeringue
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