Duplicity

by Sarah Jaune

Crystal is a teenage mother with a checkered past and an insecurity streak a mile wide. Grace is mired in her grief and struggling to cope with life. Emily has a past she’s lost and an extremely troubled family. Heather is looking to make connections when everything else around her seems to fall apart. Sam is a widow facing the world as she tries to keep her children safe.She thought she had finally found her tribe. A friend comes when you call and supports you to the very end. She had been burned before by women who turned out to be narcissists or sociopaths. She was done with toxic friends. She was ready to start over again with sane friends, ones who wouldn’t stab her in the back.What she found was the same alienation, making her doubt her own sanity, questioning everything she thought she knew, gaslighted at every step until she stood all alone. She hopes sharing her story will help. She wonders if, when you look in the mirror, she would see the same reflection you do.

697 pages, Paperback

Published March 26, 2020

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Reviews

[Kristin Sausville · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sarah Jaune has a gift for painting characters' -- particularly women's -- inner lives. This book features several young mothers with distinct lives, voices, and situations as they come together and slowly, one is revealed to be a dangerous narcissist. Having dealt with narcissistic abuse, I was impressed at how vividly the pattern of drawing in unsuspecting victims is depicted here, along with the flying monkeys phenomenon. I was really rooting for the characters, not just to break away from the one character, but in their other struggles as well.

[Curtis Black · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a ride!

There are many heavy, emotional subjects raised in this book, but all of them are raised with great care. From the start, I had a bad feeling about (redacted) and I was right to be concerned. This is not a light, easy read, but it is an incredible journey that I encourage you to take.