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Shortlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017
2017 PULITZER PRIZE Finalist for Fiction
TIME Top Ten Novels of 2016

´It might be the best American novel about a middle-class family since Jonathan Franzen´s The Corrections ´ Independent

´Exceptional, haunting, distinctive... [It] resembles the work of Anne Tyler, intertwining grief and love... Intimate and panoramic´ The Sunday Times

´Dreadfully sad and hilariously funny. Literature of the highest order´ Peter Carey

Universal and essential, the heart-breaking story of an ordinary American family shaped by tragedy

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?

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Publisher´s description. How much can any of us do to save those we love from themselves? What does the dark legacy of guilt do to a person, to a relationship, to a family? Achingly poignant and sharply witty, this portrait of a single tragedy rippling across many lives has all the makings of an American classic. Penguin

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Adam Haslett is the author of the short-story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here , a New York Times bestseller shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize and the US National Book Award, and the novel Union Atlantic , winner of the Lambda Literary Award. Hamish Hamilton published his latest novel, Imagine Me Gone . His books have been translated into eighteen languages and his writing has appeared in the New Yorker , Esquire , the Financial Times , and Der Spiegel , among others. He lives in New York.

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