Carthage

"...brilliant...amazing.... A compassionate tenderness suffuses the final sections of the book, as palpable as the cold irony with which the book begins. It's a breathtaking effect..."--Washington Post
"After her lavishly imagined, supernatural historical novel, The Accursed (2013), Oates turns in the latest of her intensely magnified studies of a family in crisis and the agony of a misfit girl."--Booklist
"Emphatically and artfully explores the subject of physical and emotional distances between loved ones, the various expanses between who individuals are, were, or could be, and the often barely perceptible gaps between guilt and innocence."--Philadelphia Inquirer
"Irresistible page-turner and heady intellectual experience... Oates continues to make her mark as one of the greatest American writers of our time."--Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Joyce Carol Oates is known for richly detailed portraits of American families asunder. CARTHAGE is a stunning contribution to her storied canon."--Kirkus Reviews
"Knotted, tense, digressive and brilliant."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Oates (The Accursed) returns with another novel that ratchets up the unsettling to her signature feverish pitch... Once again, Oates's gift for exposing the frailty--and selfishness--of humans is on display.--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"...Oates shows how perilous it is to assign guilt, and how hard it is to draw the line between victim and perpetrator in a blurred moral landscape in which every crime, on the battlefield or on the home front, is a crime of conscience."--New York Times Book Review