title: Watch Me Disappear: A Novel
author:  Janelle Brown 
description: <i>Watch Me Disappear</i> is a surprising and compelling read. Like the best novels, it takes the reader somewhere she wouldnt otherwise allow herself to go. . . . Its strongest in the places that matter most: in the believability of its characters and the irresistibility of its plot.<b><i>Chicago Tribune</i></b><br /> <br /> Janelle Browns third family drama delivers an incisive and emotional view of how grief and recovery from loss can seep into each aspect of a persons life. . . . Brown imbues realism in each character, whose complicated emotions fuel the suspenseful story.<b><i>Associated Press</i></b><br /><br /> Compulsively readable.<b><i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i></b><br /><br />When a Berkeley mother vanishes and is declared dead, her daughter is convinced shes alive in Janelle Browns thriller, calling to mind <i>Big Little Lies</i> and <i>Gone Girl</i>.<b><i>Variety</i></b><br /><br />A twisty, involving mystery.<b><i>People</i></b><br /> <br /> <i>Watch Me Disappear </i>is just as riveting as <i>Gone Girl.</i> . . . The characters are arresting, the Berkeley setting delightfully authentic, and, best of all, the propulsive investigation may make you want to go into hiding just to finish the book <i>now</i>.<b><i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></b><br /><br />Clever and compelling, this ricocheting tale reveals that, even in the closest families, how little we know of the ones we love, and how our own secrets are often the hardest to bear, can cost us dearly in the end.<b>Lisa Gardner, author of <i>Right Behind You</i></b><br /><br /> Tantalizing and twisty, <i>Watch Me Disappear</i> is both a spiders web of a novel and a moving exploration of the deeper mysteries of marriage and family. You wont be able to put it down, but you wont forget it either.<b>Megan Abbott, author of <i>You Will Know Me</i></b><br /><br /> A riveting, seductive read about the secret, protected places within even the most intimate relationships . . . Janelle Brown has written a novel that provokes thought as her story twists and turns. I loved it.<b>Sara Gruen, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Water for Elephants</i></b><br /><br /> <i>Watch Me Disappear</i> is at once a riveting page-turner and a thoughtful meditation on what it means to know other peopleand ourselves. Be careful: Once you start Janelle Browns expertly crafted and wonderfully mysterious novel, you wont be able to stop.<b>Edan Lepucki, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>California</i></b><br /><br /> I devoured <i>Watch Me Disappear</i> in one sitting. Brown deftly peels away the layers of a loving marriage to reveal a haunting mystery and a devastating truth: that no matter how much you love someone, you can never truly know them.<b>Laura McHugh, author of <i>The Weight of Blood</i></b>
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  _Watch Me Disappear_ is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and
  incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously. Any resemblence to actual events, locales, or persons, living or
  dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  Copyright © 2017 by Janelle Brown
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Published in the United States by Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House,
  a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
  
  
  SPIEGEL & GRAU and Design is a registered trademark of Penguin Random House
  LLC.
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  
  Names: Brown, Janelle, author.
  
  
  Title: Watch me disappear : a novel / by Janelle Brown.
  
  
  Description: First Edition. | New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2017]
  
  
  Identifiers: LCCN 2016045555|