num_pages: 340
description: Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there. When shes dropped off at the door of her brownstone a stranger answersa stranger who now lives in her apartment and forces her out in the cold. She reaches for her phone to call for help only to discover its missing and in its place is a bloodstained knife. Thats when she sees that her hands are covered in black pen scribbled messages like graffiti on her skin: STAY AWAKE.Two years ago Liv was living with her best friend dating a new man and thriving as a successful writer for a trendy magazine. Now shes lost and disoriented in a New York City that looks nothing like what she remembers. Catching a glimpse of the local news shes horrified to see reports of a crime scene where the victims blood has been used to scrawl a message across a window the same message thats inked on her hands. What did she do last night? And why does she remember nothing from the past two years? Liv finds herself on the run for a crime she doesnt remember committing as she tries to piece together the fragments of her life. But theres someone who does know exactly what she did and theyll do anything to make her forgetpermanently.In the vein of SJ Watsons Before I Go to Sleep and Christopher Nolans cult classic Memento Megan Goldins Stay Awake is an electrifying novel that plays with memory and murder.
language: English
title: Stay Awake
publisher: St. Martin's Press