Imagine Me Gone
- Published: 30 June 2016
- ISBN: 9780241972878
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
Imagine Me Gone is literature of the highest order. It manages to be both dreadfully sad and hilariously funny all at once. It is luminous with love
Peter Carey
Brilliantly captures the excruciating burden of love
Esquire
Exceptional, haunting, intimate and panoramic...There is an exhilaration in reading something so perceptive and well executed...This is certainly a sad story, but also a warm and moving one, which bears witness to the intertwining of grief and love
Sunday Times
Haslett has a great gift for capturing the strikingly different inner worlds of his characters and rendering them in beautiful prose
Guardian
It's not just one of the best novels of the year; it might be one of the best novels ever about living, and dying, with mental illness
NPR Best Books of the Year 2016
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
Raw, tender and hilarious...a family saga reminiscent at times of Anne Enright's The Green Road...The Pulitzer-Prize-shortlisted Haslett lets rip to dazzling effect...A showstopper
Daily Mail
There are some books, and this is one, that grab you in the first paragraphs and don't let go. A beautiful novel that re-evaluates how we cope with tragedy
ELLE
With skill and subtlety, Imagine Me Gone sweeps the reader into its characters' worlds and makes us reflect on our own lives. It might be the best American novel about a middle-class family since Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections
Independent