You Were Made for This

By Michelle Sacks and SACKS MICHELLE

Book Overview

A gripping page-turner for fans of The Woman in the Window and The Perfect Nanny, Michelle Sacks's You Were Made For This provocatively explores the darkest sides of marriage, motherhood, and friendship.

Doting wife, devoted husband, cherished child. Merry, Sam, and Conor are the perfect family in the perfect place. Merry adores the domestic life: baking, gardening, caring for her infant son. Sam, formerly an academic, is pursuing a new career as a filmmaker. Sometimes they can hardly believe how lucky they are. What perfect new lives they've built.

When Merry's childhood friend Frank visits their Swedish paradise, she immediately becomes part of the family. She bonds with Conor. And with Sam. She befriends the neighbors, and even finds herself embracing the domesticity she's always seemed to scorn. All their lives, Frank and Merry have been more like sisters than best friends. And that's why Frank soon sees the things others might miss. Treacherous things, which are almost impossible to believe when looking at this perfect family. But Frank, of all people, knows that the truth is rarely what you want the world to see.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316475408
• ISBN13: 9780316475402
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

My entire book club hated this book

My book club read this book on the recommendation of one of our members, and as a whole we heartily despised it (even the person who had picked up the original copy). We hated the characters, who were all (except perhaps the poor baby) horrible people with no moral compass or sense of self. We hated the way every character floated through life not taking any responsibility for any portion of their actions except for perhaps their pictures posted on instagram. We bemoaned the emptiness of soul of all the characters who only thought about what other people thought about them rather than considering actual good and evil. While the landscape of the book was evocative and place-making, and the writing style drew you in, we couldn't even decide who might enjoy this book. It's like whoever wrote the blurb about the book wrote about what the book should have been about instead of the shallowness of soul it actually portrayed. Read it if you're feeling angst about modern life and it will confirm every fear you ever had. Otherwise, just skip it.