Coming June 25, 2024
Woman of Interest appears on:
Esquire's Best Memoirs of 2024
"O’Neill invites readers to consider the complex and often confounding nature of family mythology in Woman of Interest—a funny, effervescent addition to the memoir-as-detective-story genre."
Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2024
"It’s a quest which features 'a femme fatale of unique proportions, a former CIA operative with a criminal record, and a dogged investigator of radical connections outside the nuclear family.' I adore O’Neill’s writing—which is always probing and cerebral, lyrical and humane."
What people are saying:
“With Woman of Interest, Tracy O’Neill solidifies her status as one of our greatest living prose stylists. With a singular wit and brilliance, O’Neill expands the horizons of the memoir, pushing the boundaries of the genre into the realm of detective noir and thrilling quest narrative. O’Neill’s formal innovations and bracing prose create a new and invigorating lens through which readers can view a universal theme: the desire to search for the self and one’s source.”
—Chloé Cooper Jones, author of Easy Beauty
"Woman of Interest is a memoir wrapped in a mystery—an inward examination of family, identity, and self, but also an actual gumshoe detective story that takes the author to the other side of the world. With each extraordinary, prickly sentence, O’Neill’s search for her biological mother is conjured with clarity and conflict. This is a work that is funny, moving, mean—an exceptional book from an extraordinary writer.”
—Kevin Nguyen, author of New Waves
"“WOMAN OF INTEREST is a brilliantly constructed Russian doll of a memoir—a profound meditation on language and desire within an insightful family mythology within a propulsive detective story. How does Tracy O’Neill hold it all together? With a rare combination of exquisite prose, good humor, and intellectual rigor.”
— Nadia Owusu, author of Aftershocks
WOMAN OF INTEREST PREORDERS
Woman of Interest appears on:
Esquire's Best Memoirs of 2024
"O’Neill invites readers to consider the complex and often confounding nature of family mythology in Woman of Interest—a funny, effervescent addition to the memoir-as-detective-story genre."
Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2024
"It’s a quest which features 'a femme fatale of unique proportions, a former CIA operative with a criminal record, and a dogged investigator of radical connections outside the nuclear family.' I adore O’Neill’s writing—which is always probing and cerebral, lyrical and humane."
What people are saying:
“With Woman of Interest, Tracy O’Neill solidifies her status as one of our greatest living prose stylists. With a singular wit and brilliance, O’Neill expands the horizons of the memoir, pushing the boundaries of the genre into the realm of detective noir and thrilling quest narrative. O’Neill’s formal innovations and bracing prose create a new and invigorating lens through which readers can view a universal theme: the desire to search for the self and one’s source.”
—Chloé Cooper Jones, author of Easy Beauty
"Woman of Interest is a memoir wrapped in a mystery—an inward examination of family, identity, and self, but also an actual gumshoe detective story that takes the author to the other side of the world. With each extraordinary, prickly sentence, O’Neill’s search for her biological mother is conjured with clarity and conflict. This is a work that is funny, moving, mean—an exceptional book from an extraordinary writer.”
—Kevin Nguyen, author of New Waves
"“WOMAN OF INTEREST is a brilliantly constructed Russian doll of a memoir—a profound meditation on language and desire within an insightful family mythology within a propulsive detective story. How does Tracy O’Neill hold it all together? With a rare combination of exquisite prose, good humor, and intellectual rigor.”
— Nadia Owusu, author of Aftershocks
WOMAN OF INTEREST PREORDERS