Cartwheel: A Novel

Cartwheel: A Novel

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
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Written with the riveting storytelling of authors like Emma Donoghue, Adam Johnson, Ann Patchett, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Cartwheel is a suspenseful and haunting novel of an American foreign exchange student arrested for murder, and a father trying to hold his family together.
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When Lily Hayes arrives in Buenos Aires for her semester abroad, she is enchanted by everything she encounters: the colorful buildings, the street food, the handsome, elusive man next door. Her studious roommate Katy is a bit of a bore, but Lily didnâ€™t come to Argentina to hang out with other Americans.
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Five weeks later, Katy is found brutally murdered in their shared home, and Lily is the prime suspect. But who is Lily Hayes? It depends on whoâ€™s asking. As the case takes shapeâ€”revealing deceptions, secrets, and suspicious DNAâ€”Lily appears alternately sinister and guileless through the eyes of those around her: the media, her family, the man who loves her and the man who seeks her conviction. With mordant wit and keen emotional insight, Cartwheel offers a prismatic investigation of the ways we decide what to seeâ€”and to believeâ€”in one another and ourselves.
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In Cartwheel, duBois delivers a novel of propulsive psychological suspense and rare moral nuance. No two readers will agree who Lily is and what happened to her roommate. Cartwheel will keep you guessing until the final page, and its questions about how well we really know ourselves will linger well beyond.

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â€œA smart, literary thriller [for] fans of Gillian Flynnâ€™sÂ Gone Girl.â€â€”The Huffington Post
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â€œPsychologically astute . . . DuBois hits [the] larger sadness just right and dispenses with all the salacious details you can readily find elsewhere. . . . The writing in Cartwheel is a pleasureâ€”electric, fine-tuned, intelligent, conflicted. The novel is engrossing, and its portraiture hits delightfully and necessarily close to home.â€â€”The New York Times Book Review (Editorâ€™s Choice)
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â€œMarvelous . . . a gripping tale . . . Every sentence crackles with wit and vision. Every page casts a spell.â€â€”Maggie Shipstead, author of Seating Arrangements

â€œ[Youâ€™ll] break your own record of pages read per minute as you tear through this book.â€â€”Marie Claire
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â€œA convincing, compelling tale . . . The story plays out in all its well-told complexity.â€â€”New York Daily News

â€œ[A] gripping, gorgeously written novel . . . The emotional intelligence in Cartwheel is so sharp itâ€™s almost ruthlessâ€”a tabloid tragedy elevated to high art. [Grade:] A-â€â€”Entertainment Weekly
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â€œSure-footed and psychologically calibrated . . . Reviewers of duBoisâ€™sÂ first novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, called it brainy and beautiful, a verdict that fits this successor. . . . As the pages fly, the reader hardly notices that duBois has stretched the genre of the criminal procedural.â€â€”Newsday

â€œThe power of Cartwheel resides in duBoisâ€™ talent for understanding how the foreign world can illuminate the most deeply held secrets we keep from others, and ourselves.â€â€”Chicago Tribune
Country USA
Brand Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0812985826_used
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2014-05-20
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780812985825

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	0812985826_used
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2014-05-20
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812985825

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