Stay Where I Can See You, Katrina Onstad
Stay Where I Can See You, Katrina Onstad
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Stay Where I Can See You
A Novel

Author: Katrina Onstad

Narrator: Courtney Patterson

Unabridged: 7 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/31/2020

Categories: Fiction, Psychological


Synopsis

Does good fortune always change things for the better?The Kaplan family has just won 10 million dollars in the lottery. But haven’t they always been lucky? Gwen thought so. She’s carefully curated a perfect suburban existence with a loving husband and two children. For over a decade, she’s been a stay-at-home mom, devoted to giving her kids the quiet, protected adolescence she didn’t have. But the surprise windfall suddenly upends the family, allowing them all to dream a little bigger and catapulting them back to the city that Gwen fled years ago.As the Kaplans navigate the notoriety that the lottery brings and try to adjust to their new lives in the upper class—Seth launches a dubious start-up, Maddie falls headfirst in love at her elite prep school—a tightly held secret is unlocked. Along with the truth come long-buried memories from Gwen’s troubled youth, forcing her to confront her painful past and threatening to unravel the incredibly tight bond between her and Maddie. Her meticulously constructed identity as the good wife and mother begins to crack. And when their changed circumstances place her family under threat, Gwen must wake up from her domestic slumber.For readers of Meg Wolitzer, Liane Moriarty and Zoe Whittall, Katrina Onstad’s new novel explores whether our most intimate relationships can survive our most unforgivable actions. Stay Where I Can See You is a penetrating story about the pendulum swing of fortune, the ferocity of mother–daughter devotion and the stories we tell—and withhold—because of love.

About Katrina Onstad

KATRINA ONSTAD is a multiple award–winning journalist whose work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, the New York Times Magazine, the Guardian and Elle. Her critically lauded novels include How Happy to Be and Everybody Has Everything, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award. Onstad lives in Toronto with her husband and two children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Amy on May 10, 2020

I expected it to be alot more engaging than it was. It's like most movies these days, the trailer (book jacket) shows all the good parts. I kept waiting for things to happen but nothing really did. Very disjointed, an ending that really didnt seem connected to much else. I was reading an uncorrected......more

Goodreads review by Noella on June 08, 2020

This was a decent story...nothing amazing or earth shattering. I kept waiting for something, anything, to happen that would raise it up a notch. I wanted more. There were many threads that I would have liked to see followed but were left hanging. Not good enough to recommend.......more

Goodreads review by Jenna on September 17, 2020

This book is full of wasted potential. * any suspense that we might’ve had is thrown away when we’re given too much information too early * all big impactful moments fell flat * Gwen and Maddie are psychotic and annoying and weirdly judgey * All relationships the two women have seem so superficial a......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on March 26, 2020

Katrina Onstad is one of my all-time favourite writers, and this book is her at the top of her game. A seemingly normal suburban family experiences a dream-come-true windfall, which sends them back to the city, to a big house, a new, more comfortable, life. But it also exposes cracks in the family,......more

Goodreads review by Claudette on August 03, 2020

Family wins millions in the lottery. Hundreds of pages go by. An unsurprising secret is revealed. There is one thing that happens but it’s glossed over in a paragraph or two. Actually this should have been a boring book but the writing redeemed it and kept me reading to the end. Honestly though this......more