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Behind You

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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?

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Catherine
Hernandez

CATHERINE HERNANDEZ is a proud queer woman of colour and an award-winning author. She is of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese and Indian heritage and is married into the Navajo Nation. Her debut novel, Scarborough, which was adapted into an award-winning motion picture, won the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award as an unpublished manuscript. Her second novel, Crosshairs, made the CBC’s Best Canadian Fiction list and was named one of NOW magazine’s 10 Best Books, an Audible Best Audiobook and an NBC 20 Best LGBTQ Book.

CATHERINE HERNANDEZ is a proud queer woman of colour and an award-winning author. She is of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese and Indian heritage and is married into the Navajo Nation. Her debut novel, Scarborough, which was adapted into an award-winning motion picture, won the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award as an unpublished manuscript. Her second novel, Crosshairs, made the CBC’s Best Canadian Fiction list and was named one of NOW magazine’s 10 Best Books, an Audible Best Audiobook and an NBC 20 Best LGBTQ Book.

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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.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
07/05/2024
Country
Canada
Original Language
English
Publisher
HarperCollins

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