Longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
One of Publishers Weekly 's Best Fiction Books of 2020.
The people of this community are 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 with no discernible identity appears in .