An eerie modern tale for fans of Shirley Jackson and Sarah Hall from a young American writer hailed as one of the finest of her generation
Catherine Lacey is the author of the novels The Answers and Nobody Is Ever Missing, and the collection of stories Certain American States. She has won a Whiting Award, was a finalist for the NYPL's Young Lions Fiction Award, and was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. Her books have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch & German. She was born in Mississippi and is based in Chicago.
A stranger comes to town, and takes us with them into their
estrangement among the denizens of a conservative religious
community. The people of this community are stifling, and generous,
cruel, earnest, needy, overconfident, fragile and repressive, which
is to say that they are brilliantly rendered by their wise maker,
Catherine Lacey
*The Mars Room*
I consumed it. It is the electric charge we need
*Everything Under*
The mercurial and electric Catherine Lacey has now conjured up an
of-the-moment fable of trauma and projection - one part Kaspar
Hauser, one part James Purdy, and one part Rachel Cusk. The pages
shimmer with implication
*Motherless Brooklyn*
[Pew] is a study in community dynamics... The Forgiveness Festival,
which takes place over the final few pages, is impressive: a
cacophony of voices confessing to sins both large and murky, small
and bitter, creating a final tragic picture of the town
*TLS*
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