Culpability

Bruce Holsinger’s novel opens with a fatal accident involving a family’s self-driving minivan, then follows the members of that family as they wrestle with questions of blame, technology, and responsibility. Weaving in the ethics of artificial intelligence, the book examines how a modern household absorbs a tragedy and how culpability is assigned when a machine shares the wheel. It was a 2025 Oprah’s Book Club selection.