Lacy Eye - Hardcover

Jessica Treadway's story collection Please Come Back to Me received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is also the author of And Give You Peace, which was named as one of Booklist 's Top 10 Debut Novels of the Year, and the collection Absent Without Leave and Other Stories. Her stories have appeared in the Atlantic, Hudson Review, Ploughshares, and Five Points, among other literary journals. A professor at Emerson College in Boston, she lives with her husband in Lexington, Massachusetts.

"Deftly plotted... Treadway paints a devastating portrait of a family torn apart from both the outside and within."―Publishers Weekly

"It's been a long time since I've read a novel at once this gripping, and this wise, and psychologically complex. As a portrait of motherhood, and an exploration of the limits of knowledge--of others, of one's self--LACY EYE probes, devastates, and informs."―Elizabeth Graver, author of The End of the Point

"An intricately plotted psychological thriller."―The Chicago Tribune

"Perhaps there's always something inexplicable about evil but at the heart of Jessica Treadway's new novel is a woman who is determined not to explain it at almost any cost. I defy anyone to read these beautifully written, brilliantly observed pages without becoming deeply involved in Hanna's life and her choices. LACY EYE is a wonderful, and deeply suspenseful novel."―Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy

"Since her debut story collection 'Absent Without Leave,' came out in 1992, Jessica Treadway has wowed critics with resonant depictions of flawed, all-too-human characters."―The Boston Globe

"Quietly disturbing...nail-bitingly suspenseful."―The Columbus Dispatch

"Complex and nuanced...an author to watch."―Reviewing the Evidence

"Treadway is a deft hand at crafting complex mysteries...asks provocative questions."―The Reading Nook