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Chapters 1-6

Chapter 1

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Kepnes, Caroline. You. Pocket Books, 2018.

• The story is told using the second person and in the present tense; the narration is directed to the subject of the narrator’s thoughts, a young woman.

• The novel opens as a girl, whom he addresses as “you,” walks into a bookstore.

• The narrator immediately feels a kind of ownership over her, noting that she is his “own little Natalie Portman circa the end of the movie Closer” (1).

• The narrator describes her as she searches the shelves for something to read and imagines he knows the type of person she is.

• He tries to calm himself; during these thoughts he mentions his name is Joe.

• Joe has a run-in with a rude customer, and after the customer leaves Joe and the girl commiserate together.

• Joe believes...

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