Catherine Lacey. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $14 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-534-49-3
Lacey’s debut novel has emotional power, depth, and subtle humor. The protagonist, Elyria, makes the impulsive decision to leave her luxurious New York City apartment, her husband, her job as a scriptwriter for soap operas, and, most importantly,...
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Catherine Lacey. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-10026-1
In Lacey’s (Nobody Is Ever Missing) remarkable novel, Mary has “spent a year suffering undiagnosable illnesses” when she finds a strange treatment called Pneuma Adaptive Kinesthesia, which immediately helps. The problem is Mary’s broke, so she...
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Catherine Lacey. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-23092-0
Lacey (Certain American States) sets an ambitious, powerful fable of identity and belief in the contemporary American South. An unnamed person with no sense of gender or race (“Anything I remember being told about my body contradicts something else...
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Catherine Lacey. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (208p) ISBN 978-0-374-26589-2
Lacey explores the effects of solitude and the strains of relationships in her stellar first story collection (after novels Nobody Is Ever Missing and The Answers). “Violations” gives readers a neurotic ex-husband looking for himself in his ex-wife’s
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Catherine Lacey. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-374-60617-6
Lacey follows up Pew with an audacious novel of art and ideas set in an alternate late 20th century. It comprises a book titled Biography of X, which was published in 2005 by a journalist named C.M. Lucca. That book’s subject, X, a pseudonymous...
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Catherine Lacey. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-61540-6
Novelist Lacey (Biography of X) reflects on love, faith, and loss in this ambitious genre-bender. Reeling after a breakup, Lacey set out to process it with a “Möbius strip of narrative”: the book’s first half is fiction, and the second—printed...
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