The Answers

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The Answers by Catherine Lacey is a compelling exploration of personal identity and the complexity of human relationships. The story follows Mary, a woman struggling with mysterious health issues, who becomes involved in a peculiar scientific experiment known as the Girlfriend Experiment. Through this surreal arrangement, the novel delves into themes of emotional attachment and the search for authentic connection in an increasingly disconnected world.
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The Answers

A dating dystopia for our modern age, from one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists.

A dating dystopia for our modern age, from one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists

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Welcome to the Girlfriend Experiment

Mary is out of options. Estranged from her family and beset by phantom pain, she signs up for The Girlfriend Experiment - a mysterious project masterminded by a famous Hollywood actor who hires a collection of women to fulfil the different roles of a relationship.

Mary is to play the Emotional Girlfriend, alongside a Maternal Girlfriend, a Mundane Girlfriend, an Angry Girlfriend and, of course, an Intimacy Team. Each woman has her debts and her difficulties, her past loves and her secrets.

As Mary and the actor are drawn ever closer together, the nature of the experiment changes, and the Girlfriends find themselves exposed to new perils, foremost among them love.

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ISBN: 9781783782185

Publisher: Granta Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 May 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Granta Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 215g

Pages: 304

About the Author

Catherine Lacey is the author of Nobody Is Ever Missing, a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. Her short fiction and essays have been published widely. She was the recipient of a Whiting Award in 2016, was named a Granta New Voice in 2014, was awarded a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2012, and has taught in the Creative Writing Program at Columbia University. A collection of her short stories is forthcoming from Granta Books.

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