Overview

Not yet thirty, Bathory, or 'Bat' to those near to her, has assembled a peculiar CV: Model, sex worker, linguist and scholar of Latin. But nothing in her lively job history employs the singular traits she inherited from her strange family., chief among them an uncanny ability to sidestep seemingly certain death(s). An appropriate atavistic instinct, for someone from a long line of assassins and spies. Her clan are assassins of a romantic bent, her parents issuing theories on love galore. However Bat is set on swerving any enduring romantic loves, and she's set on dying young. Now, if she could only avoid that one alluring figure from her father's past. A thriller, a love story, and a dynamic examination of class, violence and connection. The images we make to share and those we strive to conceal, alienation and salvation, magic and technology, LacCava' s bold new novel is propelled by the compelling violence one can seed in contradiction.

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I Fear My Pain Interests You is meticulously constructed, with each part supporting and supported by the others. Controlled self-awareness like this in novels makes me pay close attention, enriching my experience. -- Tao Li * New York Times * A visceral, exorcism-like exploration of a body blunted to pain and a mind moulded by generational trauma, lust, and dysfunction ... sensual, slippery and stylish. -- Ana Cafolla * The Face * A sharp critical vision lurches into focus: of culture as commodity, of suffering as currency, and of the female body as this agon's generalized battleground. * Tom Mc Carthy * I haven't read a book in a while that just pulled me in, and you're so immersed in the characters and in the world. It's quite a slice of life -- Kaia Gerber * Vanity Fair *

I Fear My Pain Interests You is meticulously constructed, with each part supporting and supported by the others. Controlled self-awareness like this in novels makes me pay close attention, enriching my experience. -- Tao Li * New York Times * A visceral, exorcism-like exploration of a body blunted to pain and a mind moulded by generational trauma, lust, and dysfunction ... sensual, slippery and stylish. -- Ana Cafolla * The Face * A sharp critical vision lurches into focus: of culture as commodity, of suffering as currency, and of the female body as this agon's generalized battleground. * Tom Mc Carthy * I haven't read a book in a while that just pulled me in, and you're so immersed in the characters and in the world. It's quite a slice of life -- Kaia Gerber * Vanity Fair * La Femme Nikita meets Bridges of Madison County * Marlowe Granados *

Author Information

Stephanie LaCava is a writer based in New York City. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s, Artforum, Vogue, New York Times, New York Review of Books and Interview.

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