When Margaret's fiancU is hospitalized for depression, she faces a choice- carry on with their planned marriage, or back away. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love. At the heart is the couple's eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Over the decades, his younger siblings - savvy, responsible Celia and sensitive, meticulous Alec - struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled and precarious existence. Weaving together the voices of its five central characters, this bittersweet yet frequently funny novel brings alive the love of a mother for her children, the inescapable devotion of siblings, and the legacy of a father's pain in the life of a family. It asks the ultimate question; how far will we go to save the people we love the most? Combining masterful vision with intimate humanity, Adam Haslett proves himself to be one of the most exciting American novelists of his generation.

Author Biography

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.