The Complicities is a subtle masterpiece. Imagine a voice-lyrical and low, intimate and insistent-whispering in your ear. Half-told truths simmer below the surface, like the uneasy murmuring of a conscience. Mesmerized, you listen. There is menace here in D'Erasmo's disquieted world, and terrible beauty, too. Things are not what they appear to be. We are not who we think we are, either, and yet we are complicit.
-Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness
In Stacey D'Erasmo's wonderful new novel, The Complicities, the past catches up to the present and overtakes it. All the scattered misdeeds and cut corners and malfeasances come together as crimes, big and small, and the characters either see the criminality or try to ignore it. But this suspenseful novel sees it all, and I found myself enlightened and deeply moved by its compelling story.
-Charles Baxter, author of The Sun Collective
The Complicities had me enthralled. This gripping, human tale of our crimes-financial, environmental, self-delusional-is impossible to put down. D'Erasmo weaves a thriller of a tale, exposing sticky webs of corruption that entangle our lives and fates, even those who fantasize about their innocence, redemption and escape.
-Samantha Hunt, author of The Unwritten Book: An Investigation
The Complicities is a subtle masterpiece. Imagine a voice-lyrical and low, intimate and insistent-whispering in your ear. Half-told truths simmer below the surface, like the uneasy murmuring of a conscience. Mesmerized, you listen. There is menace here in D'Erasmo's disquieted world, and terrible beauty, too. Things are not what they appear to be. We are not who we think we are, either, and yet we are complicit.
-Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness
In Stacey D'Erasmo's wonderful new novel, The Complicities, the past catches up to the present and overtakes it. All the scattered misdeeds and cut corners and malfeasances come together as crimes, big and small, and the characters either see the criminality or try to ignore it. But this suspenseful novel sees it all, and I found myself enlightened and deeply moved by its compelling story.
-Charles Baxter, author of The Sun Collective
[A] perfect outing . . . With smooth shifts in perspective and understated and precise prose, D'Erasmo demonstrates a mastery of the craft. The result is propulsive and profound.
-Publishers Weekly, starred review
The Complicities had me enthralled. This gripping, human tale of our crimes-financial, environmental, self-delusional-is impossible to put down. D'Erasmo weaves a thriller of a tale, exposing sticky webs of corruption that entangle our lives and fates, even those who fantasize about their innocence, redemption and escape.
-Samantha Hunt, author of The Unwritten Book: An Investigation
The Complicities is a subtle masterpiece. Imagine a voice-lyrical and low, intimate and insistent-whispering in your ear. Half-told truths simmer below the surface, like the uneasy murmuring of a conscience. Mesmerized, you listen. There is menace here in D'Erasmo's disquieted world, and terrible beauty, too. Things are not what they appear to be. We are not who we think we are, either, and yet we are complicit.
-Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness
In Stacey D'Erasmo's wonderful new novel, The Complicities, the past catches up to the present and overtakes it. All the scattered misdeeds and cut corners and malfeasances come together as crimes, big and small, and the characters either see the criminality or try to ignore it. But this suspenseful novel sees it all, and I found myself enlightened and deeply moved by its compelling story.
-Charles Baxter, author of The Sun Collective
