Shortlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 20172017 PULITZER PRIZE Finalist for Fiction TIME Top Ten Novels of 2016 It might be the best American novel about a middleclass family since Jonathan Franzens The Corrections IndependentExceptional, haunting, distinctive... [It] resembles the work of Anne Tyler, intertwining grief and love... Intimate and panoramic The Sunday TimesDreadfully sad and hilariously funny. Literature of the highest order Peter CareyUniversal and essential, the heartbreaking story of an ordinary American family shaped by tragedyMichaels father walked into the woods one day, and out of his familys life for ever. 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 how, given the chance, it might take the whole family. He wants to save them but can he save himself?

Binding: Paperback;368 pages; Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 382 g; Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 23

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