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Traps by MacKenzie Bezos

…gles. Instantly engrossing, powerfully moving, and impossible to put down, Bezos’s page-turning novel reminds us that sometimes our greatest gifts may come to us disguised as our greatest obstacles. Praise for TRAPS “‘Sweet are the uses of adversity’, writes Shakespeare, and MacKenzie Bezos explores that proposition through four damaged lives as they intersect over four suspenseful days. Her characters are beautifully delineated and arrestingly or…

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Media Center: 'Traps' by MacKenzie Bezos

…sleep is enough to convey her brittle, dangerous milieu. The novel isn’t short on conflict. But its drama is powered as much by conversation and the women’s interior thoughts. Each woman is impressively rendered for such a slim book, and each is at a different level of flinty no-nonsensehood that Bezos implies is essential to avoid the ‘traps’ of the title—mostly men, but also just life itself.” —KIRKUS “Bezos galvanizes with a sense of dread and…

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