Kathleen Barber's Are You Sleeping
I heard of this book recently when it was optioned for a tv show (an Apple digital one) set to star Octavia Spencer. It centers on a true-crime podcast, looking into the murder of a popular college professor and the teenager convicted of the crime--and on the murder victim's now-adult daughter, who has been keeping her past secret from her long-term boyfriend. There is also an estranged identical twin sister! So basically, it was right up my alley. The novel is peppered with tweets, Slate articles, and Reddit comments, which totally adds to the verisimilitude. I will say the writing is overly dramatic a lot of the time, and the climax was something of a letdown, but this was still a very entertaining read. B.
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