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Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar

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Also by Sara Sligar:

Vantage Point, January 2025
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Take Me Apart, May 2021
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Take Me Apart, April 2020
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Take Me Apart
Sara Sligar

Picador
May 2021
On Sale: May 4, 2021
368 pages
ISBN: 1250787416
EAN: 9781250787415
Kindle: B08DVHTM48
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Journalist Kate Aitken leaves New York for a fresh start in California and a new job: as an archivist for the estate of famed photographer Miranda Brand, who died mysteriously some decades earlier. Miranda’s son, Theo, has returned to the family home after his father’s death, and needs Kate to organise his mother’s work and the mess of her personal effects.

The further Kate digs into the material, the more a picture begins to emerge of a vibrant artist buckling under the pressures of ambition, motherhood and marriage. But Kate has secrets of her own, including a growing attraction to the enigmatic Theo, and when she stumbles across Miranda’s diary, her curiosity spirals into a dangerous obsession.

A darkly seductive tale of two magnetic women pinned down by secrets and lies, Take Me Apart is also a chilling, thought-provoking take on art, illness and power, from a spellbinding new voice in psychological suspense.

Sara Sligar is an author and academic based in Los Angeles, where she teaches English and creative writing as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s in History from the University of Cambridge. Her writing has been published in McSweeney’sQuartzThe Hairpin and other outlets. Take Me Apart is her first novel.

‘A dark, thoughtful thriller.’ Washington Post

‘At the center of this dark drama is mental illness…Reading it is painful. Yet, these are some of the novel’s strongest pages…A reading experience like peeling an onion layer by layer…You can put this book down, just not for long.’ USA Today

‘A sun-soaked noir...Like any good noir, Take Me Apart has frequent flashes of fine art, and many passages sparkle with Sligar’s style...Sligar explores the sticky territory of power dynamics between men and women, whether boss and employee, teacher and student, or husband and wife. She threads a scathing feminist critique throughout both narratives, nailing all the right talking points of the current discourse.' LA Review of Books

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