"Culpability is a thought-provoking and riveting meditation on family, parental love, morality and artificial intelligence--and where they all intersect. A wise, propulsive, and deeply powerful novel."--Laura Dave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me

"Bruce Holsinger has written a novel that is as propulsive as it is thought-provoking, a thriller with a brain. Reminiscent of the work of Richard Powers and Don DeLillo, Culpability is a compelling narrative about the perils of the digital age while addressing the challenges of living as a family. This novel might feel futuristic, except it isn't. It's happening now."--Mary Morris, author of The Red House

"Culpability is whip-smart, fascinating, and gripping. It reads fast like a thriller, but this novel takes on the great cultural challenges of today: AI, electronic surveillance, and billionaire culture. A successful but fragile family collides with these forces and wrestles them down to life-size. I was recommending this book to friends before I'd even finished it."--Stephen Kiernan, author of The Glass Chateau and The Baker's Secret

"In Culpability, Bruce Holsinger brings his sharp eye and fearless storytelling to one of the most urgent questions of our time: What does it mean to be responsible in a world shaped by systems we no longer fully control? Part family drama, part techno-thriller, this riveting novel traces the moral fallout of a self-driving car crash through the lens of a fractured family. With piercing insight and deep compassion, Holsinger captures the unsettling drift between human intention and algorithmic consequence--never losing sight of the fragile, fallible people at the heart of the story. Gripping, wise, and eerily prescient, Culpability is a family novel for the age of AI."--Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train

"Culpability is a wildly timely book, an exploration of the ethics of the technology age tucked inside a gripping story about family and loyalty. It's equally emotional, entertaining, and important, and I lingered over every page."--Janelle Brown, author of What Kind of Paradise

"A fascinating, thought-provoking novel. Bruce Holsinger is a master at combining revelatory social commentary about important, timely issues (AI this time) with deeply moving insights about family dynamics. I highly, highly recommend this book."--Angie Kim, author of Happiness Falls

"Holsinger seems to have created his own subgenre of psychosocial thriller, spinning super-smart, propulsive page-turners out of zeitgeisty worries . . . If you are not already hooked on Holsinger, it's time to join the club."--Kirkus (starred review)

"In this twisty family drama . . . Holsinger grapples evocatively with the trade-offs of automated life. This timely tale leaves readers with much to chew on."--Publishers Weekly

"Culpability is the thinking man's page-turner, absolutely of the moment."--Newsday

"For all its eerie timeliness, Culpability should age better than yesterday's Instagram post. Holsinger, a medievalist at the University of Virginia, has a sharp eye for the eternal values and foibles that animate human affairs. ... The plot of his latest book [is]a searching examination of family dynamics and the burdens that no machine will ever lift for us. ... For all the story's contemporary details, Culpability is a 19th-century novel in the spirit of William Dean Howells -- explicitly concerned with morality. That's not to say it's didactic, only that it presents deep ethical questions about fault and responsibility. It's also an irresistibly anxious book, the kind that scratches all your worries about the fragility of upper-middle-class life, the financial and legal perils that lurk behind every open-ended risk we take." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post.

"A family drama with a shocking twist. Bruce Holsinger tackles timely topics and the ties that bind in Culpability ... a who's who of hot-button issues, including A.I., corporate greed, tech addiction and even a subtle subplot about the encroachment of youth sports on family life. But the topic most likely to spark appreciative group texts among book club members of a certain age has to do with a less trendy subject: teenagers. Specifically, the relationship between a father and his 17-year-old son, which Holsinger depicts in all its maddening complexity. Culpability always returns to Noah and Charlie.... We meet them at a tender time -- a "hinge of life," as Noah calls it -- and Holsinger does it justice." --Elisabeth Egan, New York Times

"Secrets swirl and the stakes rise in this sharply modern family drama." --People (a "Best New Book")