Imagine Me Gone

Imagine Me Gone

<b><b>FINALIST for the PULITZER PRIZE<br></b></b><b><b><b>LONG-LISTED for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD<br></b>WINNER of the LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE <br>FINALIST for the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD<br>FINALIST for the KIRKUS PRIZE<br>LONG-LISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL<br><br></b></b><b>TOP 10 NOVELS OF THE YEAR -- <i>TIME, </i></b><i><b>Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, </b></i><b>BBC,</b><i><b> </b></i><b><i>Newsday<br><br></i>ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Barnes & Noble, <i>BookPage</i>, <i>BuzzFeed</i>,<i> Elle, Financial Times</i>, <i>Huffington Post</i>, <i>Kirkus</i>, NPR, <i>Refinery29</i>, <i>Seattle Times</i>, Shelf Awareness, WBUR's <i>On Point</i><br><br>"Haslett is one of the country's most talented writers, equipped with a sixth sense for characterization" <i>--Wall Street Journal</i><br><br>"Ambitious and stirring . . . With <i>Imagine Me Gone</i>, Haslett has reached another level." <i>--New York Times Book Review</i><br><br>From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most?<br><br></b>When Margaret's fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. <i>Imagine Me Gone </i>is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Over the span of decades, his younger siblings -- the savvy and responsible Celia and the ambitious and tightly controlled Alec -- struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled and precarious existence. <br><br>Told in alternating points of view by all five members of the family, this searing, gut-wrenching, and yet frequently hilarious novel brings alive with remarkable depth and poignancy the love of a mother for her children, the often inescapable devotion siblings feel toward one another, and the legacy of a father's pain in the life of a family. <br><br>With his striking emotional precision and lively, inventive language, Adam Haslett has given us something rare: a novel with the power to change how we see the most important people in our lives. <br>