The last time they spoke, Kit was slogging from mundane workdays to obligatory happy hours to crying in the shower about their dead mother. Natalie Collins hasn't heard from her sister in more than half a year. We'll keep your secrets if you keep ours.
I was a little lighter.From the USA Today bestselling and Edgar-nominated author of Darling Rose Gold comes a dark, thrilling novel about two sisters-one trapped in the clutches of a cult, the other in a web of her own lies. To discover I wasn’t the only terrible daughter or son in the room.
To hear how many other people were furious with their parents or bore a backbreaking load of shame. Kit notes, “I felt a little lighter, having shared a piece of my guilt and anger and fear aloud. Jumping from narrator to narrator and present to past, Wrobel explores themes of grief and guilt, and proves a deft chronicler of the language of trauma and recovery. Narration cycles between Natalie, Kit and a third woman whose identity is revealed halfway through the novel and whose backstory-including psychological and physical abuse at the hands of her father-is integral to Wisewood’s history. But, when she drives to Wisewood in an attempt to get to Kit before the email’s sender does, she’s met by an unwelcoming population and the sneaking suspicion that she’s being watched and followed. That last clause proves to be an issue when Natalie receives an anonymous and menacing email from someone with a Wisewood email address threatening to reveal the secret she’s been keeping from Kit. There, a leader known only as Teacher promises to help attendees be their “Maximized Self.” Committing to six-month stays, guests pledge to cut off all contact from the outside world-no internet, no phones, no visitors. This sense of introspection makes Kit an ideal target for a place like Wisewood, a wellness center on a remote island in Maine.
Natalie and Kit haven’t been in contact for six months, with Natalie working as a high-powered executive in Boston, while Kit toils as a soul-searching receptionist in Brooklyn. The novel starts in the wake of their mom’s death. Wrobel’s latest, This Might Hurt, centers on the complicated relationship between two sisters, Natalie and Kit, and the secrets-and cult-threatening to tear their family apart. Her 2020 debut, Darling Rose Gold, was a psychological thriller inspired by the real-life story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, a young woman who, after years of abuse at the hands of her mother, plotted with an internet boyfriend to kill her. Stephanie Wrobel has a thing for dysfunctional families.
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