Imagine me gone book5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Although by no means a light or easy read, Haslett's new novel forcefully demonstrates that he is unrivaled at capturing the lasting reverberations of suicide and the draining tedium and despair - along with the occasionally fabulous flights of fancy - that accompany intransigent mental illness. In Imagine Me Gone, Haslett focuses tightly on a family tormented by father-and-son battles with chronic depression and anxiety and their attempt, through it all, to answer the question of what constitutes a good, meaningful life. His first novel, Union Atlantic (2010), ambitiously added a scathing takedown of morally bankrupt, rapacious financiers into the mix. ![]() Others, like Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot and Walker Percy's The Second Coming explore the devastating toll of mental illness on loved ones.īeginning with his bestselling story collection, You Are Not a Stranger Here (2002) - which was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award - mental illness, close sibling bonds, and parents lost to suicide have been central to Adam Haslett's fiction. Novels like Crime and Punishment and The Catcher in the Rye find cultural insights in the tumult of nonconforming, besieged minds. Mental illness has long been a mainstay of literature, from Don Quixote and Jane Eyre to Mrs. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Imagine Me Gone Author Adam Haslett ![]()
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