Flatiron Books The fact of a body: a murder and a memoir, paperback/alexandria marzano-lesnevich

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Complex and challenging.

push es] the boundaries of writing about trauma.

--The New York TimesA True Crime Masterpiece - Vogue Entertainment Weekly Must List and Best Books of the Year So Far Real Simple's Best New Books Guardian Best Book of the Year Lambda Literary Award FinalistThe Fact of a Body is one of the best books I've read this year.

It's just astounding.

-- Paula Hawkins, author of Into the Water and The Girl on the TrainThis book is a marvel.

The Fact of a Body is equal parts gripping and haunting and will leave you questioning whether any one story can hold the full truth.

-- Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestselling Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men accused of murder, she thinks her position is clear.

The child of two lawyers, she is staunchly anti-death penalty.

But the moment convicted murderer Ricky Langley's face flashes on the screen as she reviews old tapes--the moment she hears him speak of his crimes -- she is overcome with the feeling of wanting him to die.

Shocked by her reaction, she digs deeper and deeper into the case.

Despite their vastly different circumstances, something in his story is unsettlingly, uncannily familiar.

Crime, even the darkest and most unsayable acts, can happen to any one of us.

As Alexandria pores over the facts of the murder, she finds herself thrust into the complicated narrative of Ricky's childhood.

And by examining the details of Ricky's case, she is forced to face her own story, to unearth long-buried family secrets, and reckon with a past that colors her view of Ricky's crime.

But another surprise awaits: She wasn't the only one who saw her life in Ricky's.

An intellectual and emotional thriller that is also a different kind of murder mystery, THE FACT OF A BODY is a book not only about how the story of one crime was constructed -- but about how we grapple with.