Unbecoming: A Novel

Unbecoming: A Novel

<b>€œStartlingly inventive.€ €"<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br><br>€œA sheer delight to read . . . I had no idea what was going to happen from one page to the next.€ €"Kate Atkinson</b><br><br> On the grubby outskirts of Paris, Grace restores bric-a-brac, mends teapots, re-sets gems. She calls herself Julie, says she€s from California, and slips back to a rented room at night. Regularly, furtively, she checks the hometown paper on the Internet. Home is Garland, Tennessee, and there, two young men have just been paroled. One, she married; the other, she€s in love with. Both were jailed for a crime that Grace herself planned in exacting detail. The heist went bad€"but not before she was on a plane to Prague with a stolen canvas rolled in her bag. And so, in Paris, begins a cat-and-mouse waiting game as Grace€s web of deception and lies unravels€"and she becomes another young woman entirely.<br><br> <i>Unbecoming</i> is an intricately plotted and psychologically nuanced heist novel that turns on suspense and slippery identity. With echoes of Alfred Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith, Rebecca Scherm€s mesmerizing debut is sure to entrance fans of Gillian Flynn, Marisha Pessl, and Donna Tartt.