

The Answers
Author: Catherine Lacey
Narrator: Megan Tusing
Unabridged: 9 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 06/06/2017
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychological
Author: Catherine Lacey
Narrator: Megan Tusing
Unabridged: 9 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 06/06/2017
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychological
Catherine Lacey is the author of the novels Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers, and Pew and the short story collection Certain American States. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. She has been a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, the New York Times, The Believer, and elsewhere
Megan Tusing is an actress, known for The Beginning and the End, The Share, and Odd Jobs. She has a bachelor’s degree in theater from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Wow, I loved this book. I knew from the opening page that I would. Sometimes you find writers who seem to get you or speak to you on a level that just makes sense, and that's how I feel about Catherine Lacey. The Answers is my ideal kind of novel: quirky, witty, intellectually stimulating and deeply......more
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A much more intense read then expected, my own senses were heightened throughout, keeping me deep in contemplation and it definitely got my brain ticking. What this book reiterates is that the human condition is deeply complex. Love in particular something so hard to dissect, interestingly within the......more
Basically, if you took Jennifer Egan's Look at Me, gave it a handful of Valium, infused it with a dumbed-down version of Super Sad True Love Story, and inexplicably crossed it over with an entirely unrelated memoir about being raised entirely separate from society and then a second entirely unrelate......more
“A sparkling satire of our era of big data.” Wall Street Journal
“ A darkly funny, tartly feminist look at the tender state of our bodies and souls in the Information Age…[and] the absurdity of a culture that persists in thinking that enlightenment is a matter of the right purchase, hashtag, or Google search.” Vogue
“Funny and eerie and idea-dense—a flavor combination that turns out to be addictive.” New York Times
“The best narrators disappear as you listen. The voice blends so smoothly with the story as the actor skillfully creates characters, manages emotions, and paces drama that the listeners no longer notice they are being red to. Megan Tusing accomplished just this in Catherine Lacey’s second novel The Answers.” Chicago Tribune (audio review)
“A surprisingly compelling puzzle of a plot involving the Girlfriend Experiment and the way it manipulates its subjects.” Los Angeles Times
"[A] rumination on what we miss and miss out on when our connections to other human beings are synthetic.” New Republic
“Lacey writes loneliness and solitude with a profound depth.” AVClub.com
“Lacey’s eerily brilliant second novel serves as both a disquieting, high-concept cautionary tale and a dark satire about fame, love, abuse, and alienation. If that doesn’t speak to 2017, we don’t know what does.” Literary Hub
“Digs into the choppy turf beneath a woman’s relationship to her body, her identity, and her search for balance between independence and meaningful relationships…Lacey doesn’t give us answers, but she sure gives us a wild story with a memorable protagonist.” Shelf Awareness
“A remarkable novel…Lacey displays an exceptional ability to articulate the elusiveness of knowing others, as well as the desire to find meaning and trust within.” Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)