The gripping true story of a young law student, an unspeakable crime and a past that refuses to stay buried.
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in creative writing, an award given for her work on The Fact of a Body. Other honours in support of this, her first book, include a Rona Jaffe Award, a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, as well as fellowships to the MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony for the Arts, Blue Mountain Center and Yaddo. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in the New York Times, Oxford American, Salon and the anthology True Crime. She has a JD from Harvard, an MFA from Emerson and a BA from Columbia University. Alexandria currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches memoir writing at Grub Street and teaches graduate public policy students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
One of the best books I've read this year. Just astounding.
*Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train*
Compulsive, eloquent and profoundly troubling. One of those rare
books which embrace the genuine complexity of real life.
*Mark Haddon*
The Fact of a Body is excellent. So gripping and fascinating.
*Sophie Hannah, author of The Carrier and The Monogram
Murders*
This book is a marvel. With unflinching precision and immense
compassion, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich peels apart both a murder
case and her own experience to reveal how we try to make sense of
the past. The Fact of a Body is equal parts gripping and haunting
and will leave you questioning whether any one story can hold the
full truth
*Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestselling
Everything I Never Told You*
The Fact of a Body is a remarkable act of witness, an anatomy of
silence and the violence it abets, a book of both public and
private accountings. Rejecting the false comfort of certainty, it
confronts the inadequacy of all our tools for fathoming not just
unforgivable crimes, but the baffling, human grace that can forgive
them. This is a profound and riveting book
*Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You*
Utterly remarkable . . . It isn’t just that the writing can be
beautiful (the author has a very nice way with cemeteries, which is
just as well because she visits enough of them), it isn’t just her
coruscating honesty, it is that she understands how very partial
the stories we tell ourselves are.
*The Times*
As gripping as a thriller, The Fact of a Body is a disturbing work
that explores the toughest questions of law and morality without
offering any easy answers.
*Literary Review*
A powerful hybrid…The Fact of a Body is true crime that feels
true.
*Victoria Segal, The Sunday Times*
Marzano-Lesnevich is a talented writer.
*William Skidelsky, The Observer*
I haven’t read anything quite like this before..we must
congratulate Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich. She has made us
understand things we might not have understood before
*The Spectator*
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