To promote Devon’s natural abilities and further her competitive fitness, the Knoxes have made tremendous personal and financial sacrifices. Devon is the highlight of her high school’s gymnastics program because her talent is potentially so limitless that even the Olympics isn’t too lofty a goal. The Knox family – father Eric, mother Katie, fifteen-year-old Devon, and younger brother, Drew – live in a small, nondescript town. Told from the point of view of her mother, whose intense knowledge of her daughter’s body and its capabilities belies her complete denial of her daughter’s interior life, the novel asks what parents – and a surrounding community – are willing to do to protect the child stars that put them on the map. A murder mystery set in the world of elite high school gymnastics competition, prolific crime fiction author Megan Abbott’s eighth novel, You Will Know Me (2016) follows events in the lives of a family whose teen daughter is potentially an Olympic-level athlete.
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