Synopses & Reviews
A major new debut thriller about a small-town girl who charms her way into the world of international art fraud On the grubby outskirts of Paris, Grace restores bric-a-brac, mends teapots, re-sets gems. She calls herself Julie, says shes from California, and slips back to a rented room at night. Regularly, furtively, she checks the hometown paper on the Internet. Home is Garland, Tennessee, and there, two young men have just been paroled. One, she married; the other, shes in love with. Both were jailed for a crime that Grace herself planned in exacting detail. The heist went badbut not before she was on a plane to Prague with a stolen canvas rolled in
her bag. And so, in Paris, begins a cat-and-mouse waiting game as Graces web of deception and lies unravelsand she becomes another young woman entirely.
Unbecoming is an intricately plotted and psychologically nuanced heist novel that turns on suspense and slippery identity. With echoes of Alfred Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith, Rebecca Scherms mesmerizing debut is sure to entrance fans of Gillian Flynn, Marisha Pessl, and Donna
Tartt.
About the Author
REBECCA SCHERM is a graduate of New York University and the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan, where she currently teaches. Her work has appeared in Subtropics, The Hairpin, Hobart, and Fiction Writers Review. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.