Imagine Me Gone

Imagine Me Gone

• 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?

<b><b>FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE<br>WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION<br></b></b><br> <b><b><br></b>TOP 10 NOVELS OF THE YEAR -- <i>TIME, Newsday<br></i>TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2016<i> -- San Francisco Chronicle<br></i>20 BOOKS THAT DEFINED OUR YEAR <i>-- Wall Street Journal<br></i><br>ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS: Barnes & Noble, BookPage, BuzzFeed,<i> Elle, Financial Times</i>, Huffington Post, <i>Kirkus</i>, NPR, Refinery29, <i>Seattle Times</i>, Shelf Awareness, WBUR's <i>On Point<br><br></i>Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction<br><br>Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction Prize, the Kirkus Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize<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><i>New York Times Book Review</i> Editors' Choice<br><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>