On Valentine’s Day, Sherry finds an anonymous note in her mailbox: be mine. As the notes continue, Sherry becomes more and more charged by the idea that she can inspire such feelings. Her twenty-year marriage is routine and she feels old, aimless, and empty now that her son is in college. When she discovers who her admirer is, she begins a wildly passionate affair with him. But her son’s childhood friend is witness to the affair, her best friend is strangely silent, and her husband is playing a disturbing game of titillation and encouragement. Soon events spiral out of Sherry’s control, threatening not only her marriage but also her son and her home. This deeply erotic thriller explores how little we know ourselves and those we live with and what we risk when we step away from our social personas and allow passion to control our lives.
Industry Reviews
"Kasischke has proven herself again to be a bold chronicler of dark obsession." "Kasichke (The Life Before Her Eyes, 2001, etc.) aims towards tragedy, using delicate, elegant prose to expose the psychological and moral rot that can lie beneath the most normal facade. She gets rights to the core...emotionally wrenching." "What makes this erotic thriller disturbing and, therefore, successful is how convincingly Kasischke renders Sherry's life and feelings so eerily normal and familiar, ensuring the unsettling portents are all but unnoticed until it is too late." "The first two-thirds of Be Mine are the most effective, as Kasischke makes the reader feel Sherry's aging female awkwardness acutely enough to identify with her descent into wanton lust. When Sherry's stand-up husband, Jon, unveils a kinky side that goads his wife into the arms of another man, Kasischke's careful set-up makes this outrageous turn of events seem entirely plausible." "If there is any justice in the world, Laura Kasischke will soon be as big as Alice Sebold, she of The Lovely Bones, that haunting book that burned through smart women's book clubs. Kasischke's novels are as beautifully written and as daring in their subjects." PRAISE FOR LAURA KASISCHKE "We are both shocked and transported by the author's potent and poetic storytelling."--Elle
"[Kasischke] takes on deep matters of life and death; conscience and consciousness; family, love and friendship."--Los Angeles Times PRAISE FOR LAURA KASISCHKE
"We are both shocked and transported by the author s potent and poetic storytelling."--Elle
"[Kasischke] takes on deep matters of life and death; conscience and consciousness; family, love and friendship."--Los Angeles Times" PRAISE FOR LAURA KASISCHKE
"We are both shocked and transported by the author s potent and poetic storytelling."--"Elle"
"[Kasischke] takes on deep matters of life and death; conscience and consciousness; family, love and friendship."--"Los Angeles Times"" PRAISE FOR LAURA KASISCHKE"We are both shocked and transported by the author s potent and poetic storytelling."--"Elle"
"[Kasischke] takes on deep matters of life and death; conscience and consciousness; family, love and friendship."--"Los Angeles Times"
" PRAISE FOR LAURA KASISCHKE "We are both shocked and transported by the author's potent and poetic storytelling."--"Elle"
"[Kasischke] takes on deep matters of life and death; conscience and consciousness; family, love and friendship."--"Los Angeles Times" PRAISE FOR LAURA KASISCHKE "We are both shocked and transported by the author's potent and poetic storytelling."--"Elle"
"[Kasischke] takes on deep matters of life and death; conscience and consciousness; family, love and friendship."--"Los Angeles Times"
