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Culpability: Oprah's Book Club Pick 2025

By (author) Bruce Holsinger

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""Compelling.""â€•Literary Review ""An irresistibly anxious book.""â€•The Washington Post â€œA family drama with a shocking twist.""â€•The New York Times ""I was riveted until the very last shocking sentence!""â€•Oprah Winfrey When the Cassidy-Shawsâ€™ driverless minivan fatally collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driverâ€™s seat. His father, Noah, is beside him, and in the back with his younger siblings is his mother, Loreleiâ€”a renowned AI researcherâ€”who is lost in her work. During a weeklong retreat on the Chesapeake Bay, the Cassidy-Shaws wrestle with the moral fallout of the crash as a routine police enquiry starts to unravel. As Loreleiâ€™s increasingly odd behaviour stirs her husbandâ€™s suspicions that there may be a darker truth behind the incident, the arrival of tech billionaire Daniel Monet (who has a mysterious history with Lorelei) cements them. When Charlie falls for Monetâ€™s teenage daughter, tensions among the Cassidy-Shaws reach breaking point. A psychosocial thriller and a propulsive family drama, Culpability explores a world newly shaped by non-human forces such as chatbots and autonomous cars, and forces us to examine our own relationship to artificial intelligence, and the nuanced ways in which we are all, in fact, culpable.