Since You Ask by Louise Wareham

Since You Ask is about the origins of sexual compulsion, and one young woman’s attempts to be free.
―Winner of the James Jones Literary Society First Novel Award
“Wareham’s simple, steady prose and aversion to glass-shattering drama elevate a potential cliche into unsettling intensity.” ―Entertainment Weekly
From a Connecticut sanitarium, 24-year-old Betsy Scott tells her doctor a story about the destructive secrets in an outwardly successful family. A series of affairs take her into increasingly dark situations, from private-school Manhattan, to the outskirts of Queens, the downtown loft of a broker, the suburban house of a doctor in Scarsdale. Since You Ask is about the origins of sexual compulsion, and one young woman’s attempts to be free.