# Culpability (Oprah's Book Club) - Hardcover

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by **Bruce Holsinger** (Author)

**Oprah's Book Club Pick \* A _New Yorker_ Best Book of 2025 \* 2026 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist \* A _Kirkus_ Best Book of 2025 \* A _Real Simple_ Best Book of 2025 \* _Washington Post_ Notable Fiction 2025 \* NPR's 2025 "Books We Love"**

**"I was riveted until the very last shocking sentence!"--Oprah Winfrey**

**"The most of-the-moment novel I've read all year, and it's the book of the summer."--_Real Simple_**

**"If you want an engaging novel sure to spark great discussion about that thorny \[AI\] future, this is it."--Ron Charles, _The Washington Post_**

**"A gripping, impossibly timely thriller."--NPR, "Books We Love"**

**A suspenseful family drama about moral responsibility in the age of artificial intelligence.**

When the Cassidy-Shaws' autonomous minivan collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driver's seat, with his father, Noah, riding shotgun. In the back seat, tweens Alice and Izzy are on their phones, while their mother, Lorelei, a world leader in the field of artificial intelligence, is absorbed in her work. Yet each family member harbors a secret, implicating them all in the tragic accident.

During a weeklong recuperation on the Chesapeake Bay, the family confronts the excruciating moral dilemmas triggered by the crash. Noah tries to hold the family together as a seemingly routine police investigation jeopardizes Charlie's future. Alice and Izzy turn strangely furtive. And Lorelei's odd behavior tugs at Noah's suspicions that there is a darker truth behind the incident--suspicions heightened by the sudden intrusion of Daniel Monet, a tech mogul whose mysterious history with Lorelei hints at betrayal. When Charlie falls for Monet's teenaged daughter, the stakes are raised even higher in this propulsive family drama that is also a fascinating exploration of the moral responsibility and ethical consequences of AI.  

_Culpability_ explores a world newly shaped by chatbots, autonomous cars, drones, and other nonhuman forces in ways that are thrilling, challenging, and unimaginably provocative.

### Author Biography

**Bruce Holsinger** is the author of _Culpability_, the 116th selection of Oprah's Book Club and hailed by Oprah Winfrey as "a must-read for all generations." His four previous novels include _The Gifted School_, which won the Colorado Book Award, and _The Displacements_, the inaugural title in the United Nations Read for Action Book Club. He has also written many works of nonfiction, most recently _On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age_. His essays and reviews have appeared in _The New York Times_, _Vanity Fair_, and many other publications, and he has been profiled on NPR's _Weekend Edition_, _Here & Now_, and _Marketplace_. He teaches English at the University of Virginia and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

**Number of Pages:** 380

**Dimensions:** 1.4 x 9.1 x 6.4 IN

**Publication Date:** July 08, 2025

## Details

- **Price:** 37.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Family Life, Fiction, Price Written on Book, Psychological, Siblings, Technological, Thrillers

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