“An intensifying thriller, building momentum as it progresses . . . Despite the nod, this is no Gone Girl rip-off, and it actually becomes a thoughtful response to Gone Girl and all of the subsequent authors of psychological suspense homesteading on Gillian Flynn’s land. There has been a glut of post-G.G. novels in which manipulative women mastermind intricate webs of deception, so much so that it has almost become a cliché of the genre. [In OUR KIND OF CRUELTY] Araminta Hall upends the reader’s expectations by removing direct access to the female character." Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)

Tonight! AMITY AND PROSPERITY author Eliza Griswold will be at Community Bookstore in conversation with David Wallace-Wells. Hope to see you there!