Author: catherinelacey

WINNER of the 2021 NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. Finalist for the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize. Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Fiction Books of 2020. One of Amazon’s 100 Best Books of 2020. “The people of this community are stifling, and generous, cruel, earnest, … 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.” –Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers A figure…