<p><b><i>Huffington Post</i>'s 33 Titles To Add To Your Shelf in 2017</b></p><p><b><i>Elle</i>'s 25 Most Anticipated Books by Women for 2017</b></p><p><b><i>Buzzfeed</i>'s 32 Most Exciting Books Coming Out in 2017</b></p><p><b><i>Los Angeles Times </i></b><b>"Faces to Watch" in 2017</b></p><p><b><i>Chicago Reader</i>'s Books We Can't Wait To Read In 2017</b><br><b></b><br><b>An urgent, propulsive novel about a woman learning to negotiate her ailment and its various aftereffects via the simulacrum of a perfect romantic relationship</b></p><p>In Catherine Lacey's ambitious second novel we are introduced to Mary, a young woman living in New York City and struggling to cope with a body that has betrayed her. All but paralyzed with pain, Mary seeks relief from a New Agey treatment called Pneuma Adaptive Kinesthesia, PAKing for short. And, remarkably, it works. But PAKing is prohibitively expensive and Mary is dead broke. So she scours Craigslist for fast-cash jobs and finds herself applying for the "Girlfriend Experiment," the brainchild of an eccentric actor, Kurt Sky, who is determined to find the perfect relationship -- even if that means paying different women to fulfill distinctive roles. Mary is hired as the "Emotional Girlfriend" -- certainly better than the "Anger Girlfriend" or the "Maternal Girlfriend" -- and is pulled into Kurt's ego-driven and messy attempt at human connection.</p><p> Told in her signature spiraling prose, <i>The Answers</i> is full of the singular yet universal insights readers have come to expect from Lacey. It is a gorgeous hybrid of the plot- and the idea-driven novel that will leave you reeling.</p>
