Behind You
ABOUT
THE BOOK
As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a lifetime. Weaving back and forth in time, Behind You, is a moving story of one girl’s resilience into adulthood and a chilling portrayal of the insidiousness of rape culture. It daringly turns the Whodunit genre on its head by asking the question “Who hasn’t done it?” As in, who has not been complicit in sexual harm?
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
Catherine Hernandez subverts the usual crime narrative in Behind You. In the book, we see two sides of Alma: a young girl coming of age in a community haunted by a serial rapist, and a film editor happily married with a teenage son. While working on a true crime documentary, Alma starts to recall long suppressed memories from the time of the Scarborough Stalker. Rather than focusing on the crimes, Hernandez uses them to explore identity, consent and violence, and how we can all be complicit.