Cartwheel: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)

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Written with the riveting storytelling of authors like Emma Donoghue, Adam Johnson, Ann Patchett, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Cartwheel is a suspenseful and haunting novel of an American foreign exchange student arrested for murder, and a father trying to hold his family together.

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 didnt 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 whos asking. As the case takes shaperevealing deceptions, secrets, and suspicious DNALily 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 seeand to believein one another and ourselves.

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.

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A smart, literary thriller [for] fans of Gillian FlynnsGone Girl.The Huffington Post

Psychologically astute . . . DuBois hits [the] larger sadness just right and dispenses with all the salacious details you can readily find elsewhere. . . . The writing in Cartwheel is a pleasureelectric, fine-tuned, intelligent, conflicted. The novel is engrossing, and its portraiture hits delightfully and necessarily close to home.The New York Times Book Review (Editors Choice)

Marvelous . . . a gripping tale . . . Every sentence crackles with wit and vision. Every page casts a spell.Maggie Shipstead, author of Seating Arrangements

[Youll] break your own record of pages read per minute as you tear through this book.Marie Claire

A convincing, compelling tale . . . The story plays out in all its well-told complexity.New York Daily News

[A] gripping, gorgeously written novel . . . The emotional intelligence in Cartwheel is so sharp its almost ruthlessa tabloid tragedy elevated to high art. [Grade:] A-Entertainment Weekly

Sure-footed and psychologically calibrated . . . Reviewers of duBoissfirst novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, called it brainy and beautiful, a verdict that fits this successor. . . . As the pages fly, the reader hardly notices that duBois has stretched the genre of the criminal procedural.Newsday

The power of Cartwheel resides in duBois talent for understanding how the foreign world can illuminate the most deeply held secrets we keep from others, and ourselves.Chicago Tribune