October's Book of the Month is Imagine Me Gone
About the Book
When Margaret's fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s
London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she
now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring
her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the
unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At
the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music
fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Over the span of
decades, his younger siblings -- the savvy and responsible Celia and the
ambitious and tightly controlled Alec -- struggle along with their
mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled and precarious
existence.
Told in alternating points of view by all five members of the family, this searing, gut-wrenching, and yet frequently hilarious novel brings alive with remarkable depth and poignancy the love of a mother for her children, the often inescapable devotion siblings feel toward one another, and the legacy of a father's pain in the life of a family.
With his striking emotional precision and lively, inventive language, Adam Haslett has given us something rare: a novel with the power to change how we see the most important people in our lives.
Told in alternating points of view by all five members of the family, this searing, gut-wrenching, and yet frequently hilarious novel brings alive with remarkable depth and poignancy the love of a mother for her children, the often inescapable devotion siblings feel toward one another, and the legacy of a father's pain in the life of a family.
With his striking emotional precision and lively, inventive language, Adam Haslett has given us something rare: a novel with the power to change how we see the most important people in our lives.
corrected 10-9-17
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