Imagine Me Gone

<p><b>Shortlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017</b><br><b>2017 PULITZER PRIZE Finalist for Fiction </b><br><b><i>TIME</i> Top Ten Novels of 2016 </b><br><br><b>'It might be the best American novel about a middle-class family since Jonathan Franzen's <i>The Corrections</i>' <i>Independent</i></b><br><br><b>'Exceptional, haunting, distinctive... [It] resembles the work of Anne Tyler, intertwining grief and love... Intimate and panoramic' <i>The</i><i> Sunday Times</i><br></b><br><b>'Dreadfully sad and hilariously funny. Literature of the highest order' Peter Carey<br></b><br><b>Universal and essential,</b><b> the heart-breaking story of an ordinary American family shaped by tragedy</b><br><br>Michael's father walked into the woods one day, and out of his family's life for ever. Yet he and his brother and sister see it less as a tragedy in their past and more as a forewarning of the future. For Michael - smart, brilliant, so alive and vital - feels the darkness that drew their father away and how, given the chance, it might take the whole family. He wants to save them - but can he save himself?</p> <p><b>Shortlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017</b><br><b>2017 PULITZER PRIZE Finalist for Fiction </b><br><b><i>TIME</i> Top Ten Novels of 2016 </b><br><br><b>'It might be the best American novel about a middle-class family since Jonathan Franzen's <i>The Corrections</i>' <i>Independent</i></b><br><br><b>'Exceptional, haunting, distinctive... [It] resembles the work of Anne Tyler, intertwining grief and love... Intimate and panoramic' <i>The</i><i> Sunday Times</i><br></b><br><b>'Dreadfully sad and hilariously funny. Literature of the highest order' Peter Carey<br></b><br><b>Universal and essential,</b><b> the heart-breaking story of an ordinary American family shaped by tragedy</b><br><br>Michael's father walked into the woods one day, and out of his family's life for ever. Yet he and his brother and sister see it less as a tragedy in their past and more as a forewarning of the future. For Michael - smart, brilliant, so alive and vital - feels the darkness that drew their father away and how, given the chance, it might take the whole family. He wants to save them - but can he save himself?</p>