'A smart, literary thriller [for] fans of Gillian Flynn's Gone 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 pleasure - electric, fine-tuned, intelligent, conflicted. The novel is engrossing, and its portraiture hits delightfully and necessarily close to home.' - The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice) §'[You'll] break your own record of pages read per minute as you tear through this book.' - Marie Claire §'Jennifer duBois is destined for great things.' - Cosmopolitan §'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 it's almost ruthless - a tabloid tragedy elevated to high art. [Grade:] A-' - Entertainment Weekly §'Sure-footed and psychologically calibrated . . . Reviewers of duBois's first 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. The limberness is welcome, indeed.' - Newsday §'Something more provocative, meaningful and suspenseful than the tabloids and social media could provide . . . [DuBois] tells a great story. . . . 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 §'[Jennifer duBois is] heir to some of the great novelists of the past, writers who caught the inner lives of their characters and rendered them on the page in beautiful, studied prose. . . . She aims to observe the thoughts that intrude at the most inappropriate times, to capture memories and intricate emotions, and to make penetrating comments about living today. In Cartwheel, she accomplishes this with acrobatic precision.' - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette §'From the first page, duBois's intelligent, penetrating writing makes this sad story captivating, delivering it from the realm of scuttlebutt and into that of art. . . . What else can we learn from these events? The answer is plenty, as duBois explores grief and love, youth and aging, and Americans abroad through a set of distinctive characters bound by calamity.' - The Dallas Morning News§'[A] thrilling book . . . What influences our perception of reality - morality, faith, sexuality, privilege - and what happens when we realize those perceptions aren't infallible? Recommended for: Anyone who . . . tends to get sucked into Law and Order and/or Criminal Minds marathons, or anyone who thrives on suspense.' - BuzzFeed §'[A] compelling, carefully crafted, and, most importantly, satisfying novel.' - Bustle §'An astonishing, breathtaking, and harrowing read.' - New York Journal of Books §'[DuBois] does an excellent job of creating and maintaining a pervasive feeling of foreboding and suspense. . . . An acute psychological study of character that rises to the level of the philosophical . . . Cartwheel is very much its own individual work of the author's creative imagination.' - Booklist (starred review) §'Jennifer duBois, a writer whose fierce intelligence is matched only by her deep humanity, hits us with a marvelous second novel that intertwines a gripping tale of murder abroad with an intimate story of family heartbreak. Every sentence crackles with wit and vision. Every page casts a spell.' - Maggie Shipstead, New York Times bestselling author of Seating Arrangements §' Cartwheel is so gripping, so fantastically evocative, that I could not, would not, put it down. Jennifer duBois is a writer of thrilling psychological precision. She dares to pause a moment, digging into the mess of crime and accusation, culture and personality, the known and unkno schovat popis