num_pages: 308
description: 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.
language: English
title: Unbecoming
publisher: Viking