6/1/2023 0 Comments Imagine me gone reviewHaslett loves these characters: every sentence shows it. Michael’s witty, wry observations underscore the often absurd attempts of the family to come together and heal. When Michael’s over-medicated lifestyle becomes unsustainable, the family conspires to help him start anew–while on some level understanding all along that his fate may already be sealed.Įach family member in Imagine Me Gone is flawed and fumbling each is relentlessly searching even when the objective is unclear. To everyone’s frustration and horror, eldest sibling Michael seems to be following in John’s footsteps. Those who survive him–his children, Michael, Alec, and Celia and his wife, Margaret–spend the rest of their lives with this loss as the centerpiece of their interactions and ambitions. At the heart of the family in this wrenching novel is a tragedy: the patriarch, John, suffering from severe depression, kills himself when his three children are young.
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