Catherine Lacey on Rewriting Youth At the Mercy of Faith

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I don’t think books are stable objects, because I don’t think your brain is a stable object. You’re always translating what you’ve written or read based on where you are in your life.

Catherine Lacey is the author of four works of fiction: Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers, Certain American States, and Pew. She's recently published work in The New Yorker, Harper's, and The Believer.

Her books have been translated into several languages​.​She is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of the Whiting Award, and earned an artists' fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Granta Magazine named her one of their "Best of Young American Novelists" in 2017.