![]() ![]() ![]() Back in America, fifteen years and three children later, John fails himself and his family as an entrepreneurial venture capitalist. Thus the limits of Margaret’s love begin to be tested right from the start. There are soon signs of danger, however, as John falls into a mute depression even before the nuptials. Margaret’s feminism takes her to England where she meets and becomes engaged to a Brit named John. Even the family’s most conventional character-Margaret, the much-burdened matriarch-asserts, “I’m not a doll in the house of my mother’s imaginings. ![]() With this novel of familial strife, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominee Adam Haslett moves beyond cliché and immerses Imagine Me Gone in contemporary ideas about racial and economic justice in America-he does so by having each of the five family members serve as alternating narrators. To sum up Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown) as a novel about an affluent family’s struggle with mental illness is to make it sound far more predictable than it actually is. ![]()
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