What Has Become Of You: A Novel

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Vera Lundy is an aspiring crime writer and master of self-deprecation who hasn't recovered from the scars of adolescence. When she agrees to fill in for a private school English teacher, teaching The Catcher in the Rye to privileged girls, Vera feels in over her head. The students are on edge, too, due to the recent murder of a local girl close to their age. Enter Jensen Willard. At 15 she's already a gifted writer but also self-destructive and eerily reminiscent of Vera's younger self. As the two outcasts forge a bond, a sense of menance enfolds the school and Vera is sucked into danger.

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A precocious teenager. A teacher who cant quite grow up. What Has Become of You is a suspenseful and tightly plotted thriller filled with vivid and memorable characters, each with her own compelling voice. Alafair Burge, author of If You Were Here, Long Gone, and the Ellie Hatcher series

Part gloss on The Catcher in the Rye and part millennial The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, What Has Become of You is that rare beast: a page-turner that asks dark, difficult questions about the state of contemporary American society. Joanne Smith Rakoff, author of A Fortunate Age

Watsons twisty plot speeds with page-turner momentum, but whats likely to stick with you are the complex characters of Vera and Jensen, who are, by turns, vulnerable, flawed, and surprising, bravely struggling to rewrite the stories of their lives. Publishers Weekly, starred review

Author Bio

Jan Elizabeth Watson received her MFA from Columbia University. She lives in Maine.