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Title: You Should Have Known
Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz
Narrator: Christina Delaine
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-18-14
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 568 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice, her days are full of familiar things: She lives in the very New York apartment in which she was raised, and sends Henry to the school she herself once attended. Dismayed by the ways in which women delude themselves, Grace is also the author of a book You Should Have Known, in which she cautions women to really hear what men are trying to tell them.
But weeks before the book is published a chasm opens in her own life: A violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only an ongoing chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.
Members Reviews:
Fantastic reading;literary soap opera
What did you like best about You Should Have Known? What did you like least?
The reading of this book was absolutely first-rate. Delaine read all the characters from a 12-year-old boy to older women, even one minor character with a Scottish accent, superbly.
Korelitz is very skilled in sketching out her characters and their environs.
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
Reading this novel is like following a trail scattered with breadcrumbs. At first you admire the view and easy of passage, but then you start to get annoyed that it's so easy and that there are no twists and turns.
Was You Should Have Known worth the listening time?
Yes, thanks to the reading.
Intelligent
It's always a pleasure to read a book that doesn't rehash hundreds of others, that keeps you alternately guessing and speaking aloud to the character, and makes you want to drive the long way home so you have an excuse to keep listening.
Brava!
watch out -- you will have trouble unplugging
i listened at 2x for 2 reasons: i wanted the next plot twist (that's good) and the narrative was bloated (that's bad). But you'll overlook the latter for the former. I thoroughly enjoyed this, for all the yucky Upper East Side self-satisfied parts of it, found it insightful and always absorbing.
Excellent !
What did you love best about You Should Have Known?
I was absolutely riveted by the story and the narration. This was one of those audio books where I felt the emotional arc of the story because of the excellent reading by Christine Delaine.
What was one of the most memorable moments of You Should Have Known?
There were many, but one of the most memorable was when Grace reconnected with her estranged friend, Vida. I also loved the meeting with Jonathan's family.
What does Christina Delaine bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?
Her voice conveyed, beautifully, the emotional impact that each disclosure of how little Grace knew about her husband.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I felt connected to all the emotions that Grace experienced throughout the story, especially the sense of dread as her orders life crumbled.
Maybe I should have known better
This book was hyped a lot in the press, and so I anticipated so much more.
