The Complex

The ComplexAn extraordinary gift to its lucky readers: an enormously full and brilliantly structured novel whose characters come to feel as familiarand as bottomlessly mysteriousas one's own family. Karen Russell, bestselling author of The Antidote A brilliant, sweeping, tour de force moving between the US and modern India, following the illicit liaisons, real estate dramas, political ambitions, and mortal betrayals of one prominent Delhi family from the author

It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history

little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike

and the woman she has become

Jake Ripper finds a welcome distraction in his combative and enigmatic new coworker

After flirting with a handsome stranger at a bar

The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier

and Rey's cheerful illustrations celebrate Curious George's innocence

escapes from his prison transfer due to a blizzard

as it examines what it means to carry our past with us and to pass it on

When a smooth-talking former associate comes calling with a can't-miss jewelry store heist

Brilliantly weaving the stories of Central Americans whose lives have been devastated by chronic political conflict and violence with those of American activists

Or will she realize she had the answer all along