Traps

"Taut but nuanced, a character-driven thriller that is both suspenseful and intelligent." --Vogue

"Bezos writes spare, present-tense prose that lends her writing an urgency as four women slip in and out of psychic and emotional peril." --The New York Times Book Review

"Sweet are the uses of adversity, writes Shakespeare, and MacKenzie Bezos explores that proposition. . . . Her characters are beautifully delineated and arrestingly original." --Geraldine Brooks

"Traps is a page turner. . . . A remarkable kind of alchemy. . . . I didn't want it to end." --Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone

"Cleverly orchestrated. . . . Each woman is impressively rendered." --Kirkus Reviews

"Bezos galvanizes the mundane with a sense of dread, presenting four women trapped by sad circumstances and their own fallibility. . . . Bezos creates a sad, melancholic, nearly melodramatic world, almost too hard to stomach until we begin to see what she sees: "Life is full of things that feel like traps. . . . Sometimes later we see that they led us where we needed to go.'" --Publishers Weekly "The story of four women in distress. . . . Bezos deftly weaves these disparate stories together and creates a moving tale of redemption." --Booklist