

This section teases out Sam’s character arc, showing us the origins of his pathology-or at least the early signs of it.Įvery psychopath has a tender story in his past. In some ways page 69 differs from most of the book, which centers on a mutual obsession between a writing professor and her deranged but charming student, Sam. The way he deals with this heartbreak is violent and extreme, but I won’t say more for fear of spoilers. He recalls the first time he met the girl who was destined to break his heart. Gehrman applied the Test to her new novel, Watch Me, and reported the following: of Watch Me delves into the back-story of one of my main characters, Sam Grist. She is a professor of English and Communications at Mendocino College. She and her partner David Wolf won the New Generation Playwrights Award for their one-act, Jake Savage, Jungle P.I.


Gehrman's plays have been produced in Ashland, New York, San Francisco, Chicago and L.A. Her Young Adult novel Babe in Boyland was optioned by the Disney Channel and won the International Reading Association's Teen Choice Award. She is also the author of eleven novels and numerous award-winning plays. Jody Gehrman is a native of Northern California, where she can be found writing, teaching, reading, or obsessing over her three cats most days.
