![]() ![]() ![]() Ng’s sophomore novel is just as unmissable as her luminous debut, Everything I Never Told You. ![]() The story unfolds in Lacey’s spare, precise prose, as Mary and Kurt navigate a world where love has become commodified and technology offers solutions, but no answers. The experiment is intended to create a perfect romantic relationship for Kurt by setting him up with a roster of women to suit his different needs ― sex, intellectual stimulation, conflict, mundane togetherness ― and Mary becomes his Emotional Girlfriend. Now she’s out of money and suffering from a mysterious illness only alleviated by a pricey New Age therapy ― so she takes on a side job in a relationship experiment funded by a movie star, Kurt Sky. The child of fundamentalist Christians, Mary was raised off the grid when she moved out on her own, she spent years traveling the world hoping to find herself. The Answers, appropriately, is about a woman who’s had to stop running away from her life and is struggling to figure out what’s next. Lacey’s debut novel, Nobody Is Ever Missing, features a young woman who runs away from her life. ![]()
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