The Answers

Reviews

“A sparkling satire of our era of big data.”

“ 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.”

“Funny and eerie and idea-dense—a flavor combination that turns out to be addictive.”

“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.”

“A surprisingly compelling puzzle of a plot involving the Girlfriend Experiment and the way it manipulates its subjects.”

"[A] rumination on what we miss and miss out on when our connections to other human beings are synthetic.”

“Lacey writes loneliness and solitude with a profound depth.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Startling and stunning and compulsively strange…a haunting investigation into the nature of love…As unexpected as it is rich.”

“Surreal, thought-provoking, and intriguingly untidy.”

“Lacey gives her story a fresh, millennial spin in this quirky look at contemporary society.”

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