Hours had passed already, and still I had spoken to no one. Up the slope, on the roof of his little white Cape, smoke rose from the chimney into the sheer blue. The red tarp covering his woodpile showed through a dome of melting snow. Brown water seeped from the icy muck caked to its undercarriage. I wasn’t certain what day it was, or what time, only that it had to be well after noon already.Īcross the road stood the young lobsterman’s truck.
For weeks it had been frigid cold, but now had come this December thaw. Beneath our tracks in the driveway I could see gravel for the first time since we’d arrived. The footprints that Michael and I had made on the snowy path were dissolving, fading into ovals on the flagstone. The fir trees, which had stood motionless and black against the gray sky, appeared alive again, green and moist in the fresh light. Icicles lining the roof of the shed dripped with meltwater. The snow-covered yard glistened under the full sun. With Imagine Me Gone, Haslett has reached another level.”- New York Times Book Review Read ExcerptĪs I stepped out of the cabin, whiteness blinded me. “Haslett is one of the country’s most talented writers, equipped with a sixth sense for characterization”- Wall Street Journal 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. 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. 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. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody.
Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. When Margaret’s fiancée, 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. 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?
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