It received several positive reviews and comparisons to Don DeLillo and Margaret Atwood.

[11][12] In an interview with Vogue, Lacey said, "Even the person who wrote Nobody Is Ever Missing, I can’t really speak on her behalf anymore.

"[13] Lacey was a founding member of 3B, a cooperatively owned and operated bed and breakfast in downtown Brooklyn, where she lived as she wrote her first novel.

[14] In 2012, Lacey won an Artists' Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts[15] that she credits in giving her the financial freedom to finish Nobody Is Ever Missing.

[16] Her 2020 novel, Pew, was shortlisted for the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize[17] and won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award.