The Complicities A Novel Stacey Derasmo by Stacey D'erasmo 9781643753461, 1643753460 instant download after payment.

After her husband Alan’s decades of financial fraud are exposed, Suzanne’s wealthy, comfortable life shatters. Alan goes to prison. Suzanne files for divorce, decamps to a barely middle-class Massachusetts beach town, & begins to create a new life & identity. Ignoring a steady stream of calls from Norfolk State Prison, she tries to cleanse herself of all connections to her ex-husband. She tells herself that he, not she, committed the crimes.  

Then Alan is released early, & the many people whose lives he ruined demand restitution. But when Suzanne finds herself awestruck at a major whale stranding, she makes an apparently high-minded decision that ripples with devastating effect not only through Alan’s life as he tries to rebuild but also through the lives of Suzanne & Alan’s son, Alan’s new wife, his estranged mother, and, ultimately, Suzanne herself.  

When damage is done, who pays? Who loses? Who is responsible?  

With biting wisdom, The Complicities examines the ways in which the stories we tell ourselves—that we didn’t know, that we weren’t there, that it wasn’t our fault—are also finally stories of our own deep complicity.  

Stacey D’Erasmo wrote 4 novels & 1 book of nonfiction. She received a Stegner Fellowship in fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction, & a Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize from Lambda Literary. Her essays, features, & reviews have appeared in the NY Times Magazine, the NY Times Book Review, the New Yorker, the Boston Review, Bookforum, the New England Review, & Ploughshares. She is an associate professor of writing & publishing practices at Fordham University.