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JENNIFER DUBOIS - Cartwheel
 | Monday, November 4 at 7PM BookPeople Presents Award-Winning Literary Novelist speaking & signing |
| From one of the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" comes a sophisticated novel of psychological suspense and moral nuance. What happened to Lily's roommate? And what did Lily have to do with it? At turns creepy, literary, and a smart look at the mysteries of family, Cartwheel works on you. We're thrilled to welcome duBois, who currently teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University-San Marcos, here to the store to talk about it. | |
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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. 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 didn’t come to Argentina to hang out with other Americans. 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 who’s asking. 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. 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.
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JENNIFER DUBOIS' A Partial History of Lost Causes was one
of the most acclaimed debuts of recent years. It was a finalist for the
PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, winner of the California Book
Award for First Fiction and the Northern California Book Award for
Fiction, and O: The Oprah Magazine chose it as one of the ten
best books of the year. DuBois was also named one of the National Book
Foundation’s 5 Under 35 authors. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’
Workshop, duBois recently completed a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford
University. Originally from Massachusetts, she now lives in Texas.
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Event date:
Monday, November 4, 2013 - 7:00pm
Event address:
603 N Lamar Blvd
78703-5413 Austin
us
$26.00
ISBN: 9780812995862
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Published: Random House - September 24th, 2013
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