Catherine Lacey. (2017). The Answers. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Catherine Lacey. 2017. The Answers. Blackstone Publishing.

Catherine Lacey, The Answers. Blackstone Publishing, 2017.

Catherine Lacey. The Answers. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2017.

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     Catherine Lacey is a novelist and author whose work has appeared in Guernica, the Atlantic, the Believer, the New York Times, McSweeney's Quarterly, the Paris Review online, Electric Literature, and many others. She was named among the "Faces to Watch" by the Los Angeles Times in 2017 and a "New Voice" by Granta in 2014. She has earned fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and Columbia University, where she earned an MFA in nonfiction.

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In Catherine Lacey's ambitious second novel we are introduced to Mary, a young woman living in New York City struggling with a body that has betrayed her. All but paralyzed with pain, Mary seeks relief from a New Age-y treatment called Pneuma Adaptive Kinesthesia, PAKing for short. And, remarkably, it works.

But PAKing is expensive and Mary is broke. So she scours Craigslist for fast-cash jobs and finds the "Girlfriend Experiment," the brainchild of an eccentric and narcissistic actor determined to find the perfect relationship—even if it means paying women to fill different roles. Mary is hired as the "emotional girlfriend"—certainly better than the "anger girlfriend" or the "maternal girlfriend"—and is pulled into an ego-driven and messy attempt at human connection.

Told in Lacey's signature spiraling prose, The Answers is full of singular yet universal insights. It is a gorgeous hybrid of the plot- and idea-driven novel that will leave you reeling.

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     Starred review from December 12, 2016
     In Lacey’s (Nobody Is Ever Missing) remarkable novel, Mary has “spent a year suffering undiagnosable illnesses” when she finds a strange treatment called Pneuma Adaptive Kinesthesia, which immediately helps. The problem is Mary’s broke, so she answers a high-paying Craigslist ad and soon ends up participating in überfamous actor Kurt Sky’s so-called Girlfriend Experiment. The goal of the experiment is to find out whether a perfect relationship can be achieved if each of many girlfriends serves a single role for Kurt. As the Emotional Girlfriend, Mary is to listen “to Kurt talk while remaining fully engaged by asking questions,” to send texts to him, and to eventually cry in front of him. She is told “sexual intimacy will not be expected of the Emotional Girlfriend” since Kurt has the Intimacy Team for that purpose. While Kurt becomes more and more intrigued by the “totally unpretentious” Mary in his attempt to find out “How to best love?”, the truth of the experiment comes to light. The novel examines the unreliability of our own bodies and emotions (at one point, the experiment’s sensors mistakenly register Mary’s feeling of obligation as a feeling of love), as well as our detachment from others—that dark gap between what someone does and what someone actually means to do. Mary is trying to trust her body through Pneuma Adaptive Kinesthesia, while Kurt’s Anger Girlfriend, Ashley, one of the best characters in the novel, only trusts her anger: her hate is “gleeful and all-consuming and an unlikely companion through her days.” Lacey displays an exceptional ability to articulate the elusiveness of knowing others, as well as the desire to find meaning and trust within. Agent: Jin Auh, Wylie Agency.

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But PAKing is expensive and Mary is broke. So she scours Craigslist for fast-cash jobs and finds the "Girlfriend Experiment," the brainchild of an eccentric and narcissistic actor determined to find the perfect relationship—even if it means paying women to fill different roles. Mary is hired as the "emotional girlfriend"—certainly better than the "anger girlfriend" or the "maternal girlfriend"—and is pulled into an ego-driven and messy attempt at human connection.

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