{"product_id":"imagine-me-gone-9780316261333","title":"Imagine Me Gone","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom 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?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. She decides to marry him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eImagine Me Gone\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Haslett is one of the country's most talented writers, equipped with a sixth sense for characterization\"-\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Ambitious and stirring . . . With \u003ci\u003eImagine Me Gone\u003c\/i\u003e, Haslett has reached another level.\"-\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Haslett\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the short story collection \u003ci\u003eYou Are Not a Stranger Here\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, and the novel \u003ci\u003eUnion Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Lambda Literary Award and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e His books have been translated into eighteen languages, and he has received the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, the PEN\/Malamud Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations. He lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50646586425618,"sku":"9780316261333","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e1adf6c5-6efe-430a-9f32-038111a945e8.jpg?v=1733181026","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/imagine-me-gone-9780316261333","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}