Leigh N. Gallagher

A fiercely original debut told in three distinct, interlocking narratives, Who You Might Be opens in 1990s California when adolescent friends Judy and Meghan run away for the weekend. It’s the dawn of internet culture, and Meghan is eager to meet her new chat room acquaintance, Cassie, in person—despite Judy’s reservations. But when the girls arrive at the given address, Cassie is nowhere to be found, and the house they enter is a stranger’s. Before their derailed adventure ends, Judy will be forced to confront startling truths about herself, her relationships, and the many forms danger can take. Meanwhile, across the country, Caleb, an entitled teenager, and Miles, his sensitive and loyal younger brother, are both miserable following their family’s move from San Francisco to Ann Arbor. Driven by boredom, Caleb begins exploring a blighted Detroit, where he meets Tez, a seasoned local tagger with a complicated past. Caleb’s embrace of graffiti writing isn’t without risk, however, and ultimately it’s Miles, blinded by new love, who finds himself in jeopardy. Years later, these seemingly unrelated stories collide in 2016 Brooklyn in a finale that explores the power—and limits—of the narratives that come to define us. Peopled with precisely drawn, indelible characters pushed to great extremes, at its core Who You Might Be asks how well we know even those closest to us, and how, ultimately, we find the resilience to determine for ourselves who we might be.

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