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    You Should Have Known
    Audiobook16 hours

    You Should Have Known

    Written by Jean Hanff Korelitz

    Narrated by Christina Delaine

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself, devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son, Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice. Grace is also the author of the forthcoming You Should Have Known, a book in which she castigates women for not valuing their intuition and calls upon them to pay attention to their first impressions of men.

    But weeks before the book is published, a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateMar 18, 2014
    ISBN9781478978121
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    You Should Have Known
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    Jean Hanff Korelitz

    Jean Hanff Korelitz is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Plot, The Latecomer, You Should Have Known (which aired on HBO in October 2020 as The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, and Donald Sutherland), Admission (adapted as a film in 2013 starring Tina Fey), The Devil and Webster, The White Rose, The Sabbathday River and A Jury of Her Peers, as well as Interference Powder, a novel for children. Her company BOOKTHEWRITER hosts Pop-Up Book Groups in which small groups of readers discuss new books with their authors. She lives in New York City with her husband, Irish poet Paul Muldoon.

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    • 4/5
      Grace, a marriage psychologist in NYC has just published a self-help book…and then her own marriage implodes. Her husband is accused of murder and disappears. She retreats to connecticut with their son & slowly the farce that was her marriage emerges. Should she have known?
    • 4/5
      Slow to start and it was about two chapters longer than it needed to be but I enjoyed the story. A woman who neglected her marriage in favor of her marriage counseling clients - without even realizing. You never know what you didn't know until it catches you off guard. Worth a listen!
    • 5/5
      Very interesting! A little slow in some parts, but the story line made up for it. Well written!
    • 5/5
      love love love this book, an excellent read. Great character development. Original story line.
    • 2/5
      Too much unnecessary details about events and people that should have been left out of the book. I opted for the audiobook for commuting and while working out. The only thing that made me give this 2 stars rather than 1 Star was the story itself. The barebones story was pretty good, but DANG. Too wordy and what could have been conveyed in a paragraph took what I guesstimate (remember, I listened to the audiobook version) took 10 pages. I wish I was exaggerating.

      I absolutely want to smack the ever loving crap out of the snobby Grace. I may have actually cursed out loud with a B—-ch please. Lord have mercy on me for being so salty about her. She almost deserves having to eat a huge helping of humble pie after how she belittled women for “their poor choices” and “choice to not listen to what he told them”. The ONLY character in the book I even liked was the son... Henry...and the dog she ended up allowing him to adopt.
    • 2/5
      Man oh man. This book dragged on. I hate leaving bad reviews because I know how much time and effort an author must put into a novel...HOWEVER, this just didn't do it for me. Maybe it's not my cup of tea, but it just never seems to peak. Much of it was very predictable. The title alone gives the bulk of the story away. I kept waiting for a twist or something, but it never came.

      I do feel that the author offered plenty of insight into Grace's character and struggles. I just didn't like Grace as a character very much. I know no matter what financial background we hail from we all have struggles, but I just can't feel quite as sorry for someone with a massive safety net having to start their life over again. Especially a person who was relatively friendless to begin with. It's not like having to rebuild from scratch, from nothing.

      I might have liked reading this better than listening to it in audiobook format, but only because I would have finished with it sooner.
    • 5/5
      Though the Gone Girl rewrite is quite prevalent in today’s mysteries, this version is worth the read. Compassion for the characters and bewilderment at the antagonist’s ego keeps the reader curious about what will happen next.
    • 5/5
      i loved it! I was hoping to finally find something different and exciting to read/ listen to... can't wait to listen anything else from this author
    • 3/5
      Good narrator but the main character was so self-absorbed & entitled that it was hard to feel any empathy for her. Although the story was new, I felt like I'd read almost identical descriptions & sub-stories in other books.
    • 1/5
      Scribd's recommendations are generally way off for me. I tried to stay with this one because Scribd was so insistent I would like it, but I really think it's awful. Couldn't get into the characters or the narration, couldn't understand what anyone would like about it. Maybe I am doing Scribd wrong, but I would prefer no recommendations to the ones I get from this app.
    • 4/5
      Be prepared you’re not going to read a detective novel. Good summer read, could go a little faster. But again it’s not about the suspect and the deduction.
    • 3/5
      It was disjointed at times and would have liked more closure with the main character
    • 5/5
      page turner, kept my attention throughout! excellwnt work
      thank u.
    • 5/5
      I started this book not liking the main character, by the end I was cheering for her. This story kept me on my toes!! Recommend to everyone!!
    • 5/5
      This story is captivating. I could not take my mind off of it. Highly recommend
    • 3/5
      Very slow moving and repetitive, I didn't find it to be an engaging listen.
    • 3/5
      The beginning to this book is so boring, I got bored of waiting for something to catch my attention.
    • 3/5
      Decent character development and a few unexpected twists however the ending did not "wrap" things up as I had hoped.
    • 2/5
      Over written, under edited. I would have liked to see where this was going but I could hardly get through two chapters.
    • 4/5
      Really enjoyed this audiobook. It was a little slow at parts in the beginning so I’m glad I listened instead of reading, might not have gotten far. Snooty New Yorker characters but main characters grew on you!
    • 5/5
      phenomenal book!!!! I LOVED IT! I could not put it down.
    • 3/5
      Well developed story. A bit slow in some places. Narration is 5 stars!
    • 4/5
      You Should Have Known is a very long book. The characters and storyline are all believable. The book kept its feel from beginning to end. As the title says, you should have known, as the leading character makes her living off of, you should have known, and as the storyline contends, you should have known; the truth of the matter is, you don't, you can't always know and that is not a bad thing. Because the length of this book is so very long, and storyline so sad and depressing it was awarded four stars in this review.
    • 3/5
      Torn here. Very torn. Loved the mystery angle, but it's hard to love a book when the main character is not very likable. Smug and delusional too. Oh well. You will sleep reading because the story is a good one but I kept thinking how much more effective it would have been with a better lead character.
    • 4/5
      I feel like I have been on a pretty lucky streak lately, having had the pleasure of reading books that were enjoyable and worthy of being passed on. "You Should Have Known" by Jean Hanff Korelitz is no exception. At 438 pages, it isn't exactly a light summer read, but with writing that flows and a plot that is well-developed, it is a refreshing work of fiction nonetheless."You Should Have Known" centers around Grace Sachs, a marriage counselor and therapist living in New York with her husband, pediatric oncologist Jonathan Sachs, and their son Henry. Grace has authored a soon-to-be-published book titled 'You Should Have Known', a self-help of sorts which lambasts women for making terrible choices in companions and spouses when they should have read the tell-tale signs of a doomed relationship from the start. Henry is enrolled at Rearden, a private school catering to the upper-class families of Manhattan, following his mother's footsteps.Grace's confidence in her expertise on relationships and in her steadfast and loving marriage is shaken and turned upside down when a Rearden student's mother is brutally murdered and Jonathan becomes the primary suspect. In a flurry of humiliation and confusion, the truth about numerous affairs, illegitimate children, and termination of his employment months prior is revealed, leaving Grace devastated and in shock. Everything she thought was true is put to the question. She and Henry quickly depart Manhattan and its inevitable media circus and eventually attempt to start a new life at her lakehouse in Connecticut.Korelitz is masterful at building suspense. I felt my heart thumping as more and more information was released, felt the frantic helplessness of Grace as she tried desperately to find Jonathan when he disappeared, and gasped when the ropes holding together her life became unraveled string by string. I wanted to reach through the pages and shake her by the shoulders a few times, when 'a-ha moments' would strike me and things fell into place to expose truths before Grace figured them out, or when she purposely and stubbornly fell into denial and refused to see those truths for herself.The only criticism I have of the book is the romance that Korelitz begins to develop between Grace and her lakehouse neighbor. It starts only a couple months after Grace's world as she knew it came crashing down, and seemed a bit too cavalier and rushed to be believable. A woman who finds out in December that her husband is not only an adulterer but a murderer as well, is not likely to be falling for and kissing another man in late February. I feel as though that part was an attempt by Korelitz to signal that Grace was moving on with her life and would overcome all that had happened, but I believe the book would have been better off without the blooming lovestory at the end.All in all, this is a solid book. It has a compelling plot and well-developed characters, but is too intense for what I would consider a summer read. Read it when you desire something with more substance, and I'm sure you won't be disappointed.
    • 3/5
      It isn’t exactly boring and the idea is good, but I waited for something bigger to happen and it never does. A bit to slow and to few detective/crime details in it for me

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    • 4/5
      Nicely full of suspense and mystery , story started right away.
    • 4/5
      I feel like I have been on a pretty lucky streak lately, having had the pleasure of reading books that were enjoyable and worthy of being passed on. "You Should Have Known" by Jean Hanff Korelitz is no exception. At 438 pages, it isn't exactly a light summer read, but with writing that flows and a plot that is well-developed, it is a refreshing work of fiction nonetheless."You Should Have Known" centers around Grace Sachs, a marriage counselor and therapist living in New York with her husband, pediatric oncologist Jonathan Sachs, and their son Henry. Grace has authored a soon-to-be-published book titled 'You Should Have Known', a self-help of sorts which lambasts women for making terrible choices in companions and spouses when they should have read the tell-tale signs of a doomed relationship from the start. Henry is enrolled at Rearden, a private school catering to the upper-class families of Manhattan, following his mother's footsteps.Grace's confidence in her expertise on relationships and in her steadfast and loving marriage is shaken and turned upside down when a Rearden student's mother is brutally murdered and Jonathan becomes the primary suspect. In a flurry of humiliation and confusion, the truth about numerous affairs, illegitimate children, and termination of his employment months prior is revealed, leaving Grace devastated and in shock. Everything she thought was true is put to the question. She and Henry quickly depart Manhattan and its inevitable media circus and eventually attempt to start a new life at her lakehouse in Connecticut.Korelitz is masterful at building suspense. I felt my heart thumping as more and more information was released, felt the frantic helplessness of Grace as she tried desperately to find Jonathan when he disappeared, and gasped when the ropes holding together her life became unraveled string by string. I wanted to reach through the pages and shake her by the shoulders a few times, when 'a-ha moments' would strike me and things fell into place to expose truths before Grace figured them out, or when she purposely and stubbornly fell into denial and refused to see those truths for herself.The only criticism I have of the book is the romance that Korelitz begins to develop between Grace and her lakehouse neighbor. It starts only a couple months after Grace's world as she knew it came crashing down, and seemed a bit too cavalier and rushed to be believable. A woman who finds out in December that her husband is not only an adulterer but a murderer as well, is not likely to be falling for and kissing another man in late February. I feel as though that part was an attempt by Korelitz to signal that Grace was moving on with her life and would overcome all that had happened, but I believe the book would have been better off without the blooming lovestory at the end.All in all, this is a solid book. It has a compelling plot and well-developed characters, but is too intense for what I would consider a summer read. Read it when you desire something with more substance, and I'm sure you won't be disappointed.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      This book is a very very very slow burn. You never even really meet the husband. He vanishes without the reader getting to know him at all, so when he maybe did something bad, and maybe doesn't work at his job anymore, and maybe had disciplinary hearings that the wife knows nothing about--well, it isn't a shock. Sure he might be capable of the maybe somethings that he might be being accused of (you aren't even sure until 2/3s of the way through the book that he even is accused of something), because the reader doesn't know him at all. I didn't put it down only because I had invested so much time and the last hundred pages or so are great, but it took WAY too long to get there.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Engrossing.