Listen to Me

<strong>A page-turning modern gothic about a marriage and road trip gone hauntingly awry</strong> <p/><strong>A <em>New York Times Book Review</em> Editors' Choice <p/> Pittard deserves the attention of anyone in search of today's best fiction. -- <em>Washington Post</em></strong> <p/><strong>Revelatory. <em>-- The New Yorker</em> <p/> [<em>Listen to Me</em>] gripped me completely and even gave me nightmares which is high praise in my book. <em>-- Chicago Tribune</em></strong> <p/> Mark and Maggie's annual drive east to visit family has gotten off to a rocky start. By the time they're on the road it's late a storm is brewing and they are no longer speaking to each other. Adding to the stress Maggie--recently mugged at gunpoint--is lately not herself and Mark is at a loss about what to make of the stranger he calls his wife. When the couple is forced to stop for the night at a remote inn completely without power Maggie's paranoia reaches an all-time and terrifying high. But as Mark finds himself threatened in a dark parking lot it's Maggie who takes control. <p/><strong>Pittard proves herself a master of ordinary suspense. -- <em>New York Times</em> <p/> <em>Listen to Me</em> elides so many genres that it's Houdini-like bursting through constraints. It moves between its two characters' inner lives as effortlessly as an Olympic swimmer strokes through water<em>.</em> <em>-- </em>Ann Beattie <em>Paris Review </em>blog <p/> A psychologically complex addictive and quick-moving read. I didn't want it to end! -- M.O. Walsh author of <em>New York Times</em> best-selling novel <em>My Sunshine Away</em></strong> <br>