MacKenzie Bezos. (2013). Traps: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

MacKenzie Bezos. 2013. Traps: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

MacKenzie Bezos, Traps: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013.

MacKenzie Bezos. Traps: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013.

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Reclusive movie star Jessica Lessing is finally coming out of hiding—to confront her father, a con man who has been selling her out to the paparazzi for years. On her four-day road trip to Las Vegas, she encounters three unexpected allies—Vivian, a teenager with newborn twins; Lynn, a dog shelter owner living in isolation on a ranch in rural Nevada; and Dana, a fearless ex-military bodyguard wrestling with secrets of her own. As their fates collide, each woman will find a chance at redemption that she never would have thought possible. MacKenzie Bezos’s taut prose, tough characters, and nuanced insights give this novel a complexity that few thrillers can match.
This ebook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.  

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   • source: Anniston Star
   • content: "Bezos writes spare, present tense prose that lends her writing an urgency as the four women slip in and out of psychic and physical peril . . . The novel is driven by emotional epiphanies . . . The message is that women can overcome and learn from 'weaknesses and mistakes.'" --The New York Times Book Review "A character-driven thriller that is both suspenseful and intelligent . . . Traps crackles with ready-made Hollywood drama." --Vogue "Traps captures the ugliness of living as well as the beauty. And it explores in short chapters and simple, moving scenes how small incidents link us in ways we'll never know . . . It leads us where we need to go. And gently persuades us to face the adversity of what we call living."
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   • content: "This cleverly orchestrated, cool-toned novel . . . explores how women respond to threats, and do it free of emotional overreaction . . . The novel isn't short on conflict . . . but its drama is powered as much by conversation and the women's interior thoughts. Each woman is impressively rendered . . . at a different level of flinty no-nonsensehood that Bezos implies is essential to avoid the 'traps' of life."
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   • source: Booklist
   • content: "The story of four women in distress . . . Bezos deftly weaves these disparate stories together and creates a moving tale of redemption. Some of the traps release a little too easily, but the characters are involving and the pacing so right that it doesn't matter."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: "Bezos galvanizes the mundane with a sense of dread, presenting four women trapped by sad circumstances and their own fallibility . . . Bezos creates a sad, melancholic, nearly melodramatic world, almost too hard to stomach until we begin to see what she sees: 'Life is full of things that feel like traps . . . Sometimes later we see that they led us where we needed to go.'"
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   • source: Geraldine Brooks
   • content: "Sweet are the uses of adversity, writes Shakespeare, and MacKenzie Bezos explores that proposition through four damaged lives as they intersect over four suspenseful days. Her characters are beautifully delineated and arrestingly original. There is a sparkling, chiseled quality to her writing that puts me in mind of a master sculptor who commands the most disciplined craftsmanship in pursuit of passionate artistic ends."
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   • source: Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone

   • content: "The four incredible women at the heart of Traps will linger in my psyche for a long time. Bezos's gift is to take what seem to be disparate lives, separate worlds and weave them into a single tapestry--a remarkable kind of alchemy. The real life lesson here is one of interconnectedness, of strength and courage emerging not despite, but because of adversity. Traps is a page turner, a satisfying read. I didn't want it to end."
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     January 14, 2013
     Bezos (The Testing of Luther Albright) has a knack for the slow-build. In her second novel she galvanizes the mundane with a sense of dread, presenting four women trapped by sad circumstances and their own fallibility, as they gradually make their way through four tense days during which their lives intersect. Dana, a security guard, watches over Jessica, an actress, as she goes to face her exploitative father and retrieve a dog; while Vivian, a 15-year-old mother of twins who is running from more than one abuser, answers Lynn’s ad for help caring for her dogs at Three Paws Dog Rescue. All four characters have secrets—some, it turns out, involving one another. None of them are at all happy, and the author keeps the reader in suspense as to what the fifth day will bring each woman: doom or salvation? Bezos creates a sad, melancholic, nearly melodramatic world, almost too hard to stomach until we begin to see what she sees: “Life is full of things that feel like traps.... Sometimes later we see that they led us where we needed to go.” Agent: Amanda Urban, ICM.

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     January 15, 2013
     The lives of four troubled women converge outside Las Vegas in this follow-up from Bezos (The Testing of Luther Albright, 2005). This cleverly orchestrated, cool-toned novel opens with Dana, a top-shelf bodyguard, fending off a dog attack without breaking a sweat. The scene serves as a kind of allegory for what Bezos is up to throughout the book: She wants to explore how women respond to threats, and do it free of emotional overreaction. Dana is charged with monitoring Jessica, an Oscar-winning actress who's compelled to visit her ailing estranged father and care for his dog. The dog brings them into the orbit of Lynn, a recovering alcoholic who runs an animal shelter, and she in turn has taken in Vivian, a 17-year-old prostitute who's run off with her twin infants to escape her abusive pimp. The setup is pulpy and all the more preposterous for being set in just four days. Yet Bezos' prose doesn't dramatize--at times, it's as removed as a dossier, and a spare image of a black widow spider resting on the car seat where Vivian's babies sleep is enough to convey her brittle, dangerous milieu. The novel isn't short on conflict--Dana is struggling to help her boyfriend, who has cancer, and Vivian's pimp makes an ugly reappearance. But its drama is powered as much by conversation and the women's interior thoughts. Each woman is impressively rendered for such a slim book, and each is at a different level of flinty no-nonsensehood that Bezos implies is essential to avoid the "traps" of the title--mostly men, but also just life itself. Dana, with her low resting heart rate, is the platonic ideal, but Vivian's complicated but determined escape is equally admirable. This book's emotional remove is something of an asset, emphasizing the seriousness of the characters' predicaments without locking them into the stock, manipulative plots.

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     February 15, 2013
     

     Opening in contemporary California, Bezos's (The Testing of Luther Albright) latest follows Dana, a security specialist and celebrity bodyguard, as she cares for a boyfriend with cancer and undertakes a new assignment guarding a paparazzi-plagued actress, Jessica. Their stories soon intertwine with those of Vivian, a teenage mother on the run from her abusive pimp, and Lynn, proprietor of an animal sanctuary in rural Nevada. VERDICT Bezos skillfully interweaves the stories of these four compelling characters, all of whom are facing individual challenges and seeking escape and peace. This is a fast read, told in the present tense; the reflection comes later. Recommend to women's fiction fans seeking novels with more substance and to book clubs looking for contemporary options.--Jennifer B. Stidham, Baytown, TX

     Copyright 2013 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      February 1, 2013
      This is the story of four women in distress. Dana is a high-tech security guard who discovers she is pregnant. The father is quite possibly dying of cancer. Vivian has twins, doesn't know who the father is, and is living with a man who is using her to entertain his business associates. Lynn, a recovering alcoholic with one hand, runs a dog shelter on her farm. Jessicamovie star, mother of two, and budding agoraphobicis burdened with a father who sells information about her on the Internet. Gradually, we discover that Dana is guarding Jessica, and Vivian applies for a job at Lynn's dog farm. By the end of the book, all four of them have come together and eased one another's distress. Bezos deftly weaves these disparate stories together and creates a moving tale of redemption. Some of the traps release a little too easily, but the characters are involving and the pacing so right that it doesn't matter.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)

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