Download You Know Who You Are (Vintage Contemporaries), by Ben Dolnick

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You Know Who You Are (Vintage Contemporaries), by Ben Dolnick

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From Publishers Weekly

Middle child Jacob Vine searches for his place in the world and in his family in Dolnick's wryly comic if unsurprising follow-up to Zoology. Sandwiched between golden child Will and deadly adorable younger sister Cara, Jacob never quite figures out his role, and after his mother dies of cancer when he's in seventh grade, Jacob, ill-equipped to even manage his first real romantic relationship, must add a new dimension to his half-formed identity: motherlessness. He eventually finds a niche studying biology. Of course, Jacob's fictional liberal arts college in the Adirondacks isn't Harvard, Will's alma mater, but Jacob takes to it and agreeably shuffles through the leaving-the-nest gauntlet. Dolnick can admirably distill complex adolescent angst down to precise phrases, and he has an easy hand with Jacob's adolescent romance, though the strained relationship between the brothers (Cara seems like an afterthought) is never particularly revelatory. It's a solid coming-of-age in which Dolnick does his work quietly: sincere and direct, devoid of stylistic flourishes or narrative fireworks. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Echoing themes from his debut novel, Zoology (2007), Dolnick revisits those moments in life that truly define a person. There is no major conflict or ultimate goal here, only a journey through life and the evolution of one utterly earnest Jacob Vine as he navigates a fragile family dynamic, colorful friends, and a continuously strenuous romantic life. Told over the course of 15 critical years from child to adult, the novel spotlights Jacob in telling vignettes. Sometimes these moments seem small, like how sweaty hand-holding can be for a nervous teenager, but others are clearly consequential, like his mother falling gravely ill. Each milestone carries Jacob a little further along, though, growing a little bit more each time.The years pass by so steadily, always with beautifully constructed settings and fully realistic characters, that by the end, readers will feel a sense of nostalgia, maybe not just over Jacob�s life but also over their own. Dolnick�s quick pace and light style, paired with smart storytelling, will resonate well with the early-twenties crowd. --Casey Bayer

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Product details

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

Paperback: 274 pages

Publisher: Vintage (March 22, 2011)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 030739087X

ISBN-13: 978-0307390875

Product Dimensions:

5.2 x 0.8 x 8 inches

Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.4 out of 5 stars

15 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#1,584,226 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Ben Dolnick's latest novel follows The Vines--Arthur and Alice and their three children, Will, Jacob and Cara. The Vines are your typical family living a fairly uneventful life in suburban Maryland. Jacob, the middle child, doesn't have the same self-confidence and self-assurance that his siblings do, and longs for approval, to fit in. When Alice is diagnosed with cancer, Jacob takes advantage of the ensuing chaos to explore his new freedom, causing harmless adolescent trouble and, ultimately, pursuing his first romantic relationship. And when Alice dies, his personality takes on new sensitivity, which he tries to use to his advantage.You Know Who You Are focuses on Jacob as he moves through high school, college and life after graduation. His relationships are always slightly off-kilter, whether with his family, friends or various girlfriends. Even as he grows he still feels as if he lives in Will's shadow, although Will has his own troubles figuring life out. But all of this uncertainty, and the struggles that Jacob experiences, makes him a tremendously sympathetic character, and it's one of the reasons this book is an enjoyable read.I love books about family dynamics. While this family is a little less dysfunctional than most, I still found Jacob's story, and that of the entire Vine family, very interesting. It took me a little while to get completely hooked, but once I did, I found myself flying through the book. The plot explores very familiar territory, but Dolnick's storytelling ability makes even the familiar seem slightly different. This is one of those books that lacks fireworks but relies on the strength of its characters to tell a compelling story. I enjoyed it a lot.

Dolnick's a dangerous one. i found myself having to look up from the page from time to time to fully savor - or would it be to diminish? - the almost painful flood of recognition, toe-curling embarrassment, lust, etc. that the author is able to put me through with his clean and humble but psychologically acute prose. Dolnick is a serious and moral writer - demonstrating a writerly intelligence and sensitivity without indulging in too many bells and whistles that seek to draw attention to that intelligence or sensitivity. in this way, though his subject is adolescent (for much of the book), his writing is anything but. the narration has been handled so deftly that the writer hasn't left fingerprints on it. for instance, there's the grace with which dolnick moves between time slices of jacob's life. this is the kind of writerly virtuosity that only reveals itself when you notice, at some point, what you're not noticing all that much - i.e., the passage of time in the narrative. the fact that you're somehow inhabiting years of jacob's inner life, and shouldering the subtle heft of them as they accumulate, and yet, this is all happening in less than 300 hundred pages.i highly recommend this book, especially to anyone who ever went to high school, ever.

Every now and then you read a book like this and wonder if the author had actually been reading you while he or she set pen to paper. You Know Who You Are tells the story of Jacob Vine's struggle into adulthood, spanning from his early childhood to his mid-twenties. You Know Who You Are is even more ambitious than Dolnick's first book, Zoology, yet tackles this larger endeavor with the same energy and attention that marks Dolnick's impressive writing style. Dolnick has a particular skill for description; each page is filled with morsels of text that convey far more meaning than the sum of their words.Structurally, Dolnick tells this story by way of slices of time from key points in Jacob Vine's life. This makes for clear and great storytelling and also feels more realistic and true to how one actually experiences life and remembers it. Dolnick captures so much of the smells and tastes and feelings of those years -- from the cool rush of ice water that pours over you when you realize how much trouble you are in, to the ability to concentrate one's entire being into a hand held by the girl you like. Over the course of reading You Know Who You Are, I certainly relived my own memories of the tininess of being a child, the awkwardness of being a teenager, and my own stumblings into adulthood.I recommend this book as strongly as I can. Dolnick has done it again with You Know Who You Are, and I can't wait to see what comes next.

Ben Dolnick manages to convey the angst, humor and emotional challenges of an adolescent becoming a teenager becoming a young man. His poignant and often funny account of the early life of Jacob Vine engages and captures the reader. "I have experienced this" is the refrain coursing through your mind as you read this engaging new novel. The author keeps your attention as he escorts you through chapters of Jacob's youth. Not just a view of an adolescent's life, but watching a young boy mature.

I like the way this guy writes a story, not predictable, not outrageous, just something that can -and probably does happen all the time

This is the second book of his that I've read. He reminds me of Jonathan Tropper or early Tom Perrotta, clever and funny.

This is a terrific book. It's a breathtakingly honest account of Jacob Vine as he goes from adolescence to young adulthood. At times funny, it is most especially poignant. Not so much a coming of age novel, as a coming into one's own story.

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