Catherine Lacey Libri

"When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter - falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief and refusing everyone's good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. Not even CM, her wife, knew where X had been born, and in her quest to find out, she opens a Pandora's box of secrets, betrayals, and destruction. All the while, she immerses herself in the history of the Southern Territory, a fascist theocracy that split from the rest of the country after World War II, as it is finally, in the present day, forced into an uneasy reunification." -- Publisher annotation.

Twelve stories - each a masterful and compassionate guide to the fluctuations of the human heart - from one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists.

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.

This dazzling, dark novel follows a young woman called Elyria as she hitchhikes across the wilds of New Zealand, fleeing from her marriage and her sorrows, searching for what's missing.

A dating dystopia for our modern age, from one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists.

Eine Erkundung der Liebe in Zeiten der Künstlichkeit – »Catherine Lacey spielt in ihrer eigenen Liga.« The New York Times. In hypnotischen Sätzen zieht uns Catherine Laceys Roman hinein in das Girlfriend-Experiment, ins Leben gerufen von Kurt Sky, einem so berühmten wie exzentrischen Schauspieler. Die Geschichte um Kurt und die als »emotionale Freundin« angestellte Mary Parson zeigt uns eine artifizielle, doch allzu reale Welt und hinterfragt spielerisch die Konventionen, die unsere intimsten Momente bestimmen. Laceys Antworten auf diese Fragen sind höchst beunruhigend. »Das ›must read‹ des Jahres. So analytisch wie menschlich, empathisch und entlarvend. Wie Don DeLillo für Millenials.« Vogue