Description

A fiercely original debut from Leigh N Gallagher Who You Might Be takes readers from 1990s Southern California to a UFOlogist holdout in Nevada the graffiti playground of Detroit and a selfimportant New York art scene in an unflinching examination of how lifes most unexpected turnsand the people we meet along the wayshape who we become

Its the late ninetiesthe dawn of the internetand Judy and Meghan have lied to their mothers and run away for the weekend to see a girl theyve met in a chat room Meanwhile twelveyearold Cassie desperately clinging to childhood hopes travels deep into the Nevada desert to reunite with her real mother at a strange and isolated compound And across the country Caleb an entitled teenager is miserable following his familys move from uppercrust San Francisco to boring Ann Arboruntil emboldened by privilege his tours of blighted Detroit become graffitiwriting escapades with his faithful little brother in tow

Each of these adventures derails in severe alarming ways only to resurface and collide two decades later in an unforgettable finale that explores the powerand limitsof the narratives that come to define us Deftly written and peopled with precisely drawn indelible characters pushed to great extremes Who You Might Be considers the ramifications of lifes most trying encounters and the resilience it takes to determine for ourselves who we might be

A Macmillan Audio production from Holt