Fiction. From a Connecticut sanitarium, 24-year-old Betsy Scott tells her doctor a story about the destructive secrets in an outwardly successful family. Confusing love and sex, desire and fear, Betsy grows alienated, confused and desperate. She finally faces truths about herself and her family that enable her to move beyond them and into a new life. SINCE YOU ASK is about the origins of sexual compulsion, and the ways in which one young woman tries to overcome it. Louis Warehem grew up in Manhattan and graduated from Columbia Univesrity. She has worked as a reporter in New York City, Oxford, Mississippi and New Zealand. SINCE YOU ASK was the winner of the James Jones Literary Society First Novel Award.