Description
Michael's father walked into the woods one day, and out of his family's life forever. 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 knows that, given the chance, it might take the whole family. He wants to save them, but can he save himself?
Universal and essential, the heart-breaking story of an ordinary American family shaped by tragedy.
Endorsements
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.
Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award (2017).
2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Fiction.
Named one of TIME's Top Ten Novels of 2016 — TIME.
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