3/19/2024 0 Comments Diary of an oxygen thief audible![]() After reading, I was surprised to learn that the author had even been to Buenos Aires. I read this book in part out of interest in the subject matter, and in part because it was set in one of my favorite cities. ![]() “ heir to some of the great novelists of the past, writers who caught the inner lives of their characters and rendered them on the page in beautiful, studied prose.”-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Provocative, meaningful and suspenseful.”-Chicago Tribune As the pages fly, the reader hardly notices that duBois has stretched the genre of the criminal procedural.”-Newsday' “Sure-footed and psychologically calibrated. The emotional intelligence in Cartwheel is so sharp it’s almost ruthless-a tabloid tragedy elevated to high art. ![]() The story plays out in all its well-told complexity.”-New York Daily News“ gripping, gorgeously written novel. “ break your own record of pages read per minute as you tear through this book.”-Marie Claire “Jennifer duBois is destined for great things.”-Cosmopolitan Every page casts a spell.”-Maggie Shipstead, author of Seating Arrangements Every sentence crackles with wit and vision. The novel is engrossing, and its portraiture hits delightfully and necessarily close to home.”-The New York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice) The writing in Cartwheel is a pleasure-electric, fine-tuned, intelligent, conflicted. DuBois hits larger sadness just right and dispenses with all the salacious details you can readily find elsewhere. “A smart, literary thriller fans of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl.”-The Huffington Post “Psychologically astute. Cartwheel will keep you guessing until the final page, and its questions about how well we really know ourselves will linger well beyond. No two readers will agree who Lily is and what happened to her roommate. In Cartwheel, duBois delivers a novel of propulsive psychological suspense and rare moral nuance. With mordant wit and keen emotional insight, Cartwheel offers a prismatic investigation of the ways we decide what to see-and to believe-in one another and ourselves. As the case takes shape-revealing deceptions, secrets, and suspicious DNA-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. But who is Lily Hayes? It depends on who’s asking. Her studious roommate Katy is a bit of a bore, but Lily didn’t come to Argentina to hang out with other Americans.įive weeks later, Katy is found brutally murdered in their shared home, and Lily is the prime suspect. 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. 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. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYSlate
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