![]() ![]() With vivid, creative language, Adam Haslett will bring to our attention the importance of love in the family, the important people in our lives. This is a painful, hilarious novel that gives the community the depth and pride of the great love a mother has for her children. Their son Michael, an eminent musician, Margaret’s family fights for Michael’s very difficult and precarious existence. There seem to be conscious shades of Faulkner’s As I. Imagine Me Gone is the wonderful story of love and happiness that we can see. Imagine Me Gone makes the elemental American landscapes of the previous novel the setting for a more classical tale of family struggle. The devastation and pain that mental illness causes to a family. Haslett brings the characters to life in such a way that we witness their different lives and we understand excruciating pain. So her choice is still deciding to marry him. ![]() The plan with what is happening with his condition, or turn away from the suffering that will befall him. the pain and devastation that mental illness causes to a family. ![]() ourselves, bring a person into their life, and we will understand the excruciating pain. When Margaret’s fiancé John is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she is faced with a choice: Haslett brings the characters to life in a way that one feels they are witnessing. The book asks a good question for each of us: How far will we go to save those we love most. Imagine Me Gone is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. ![]()
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