Name: Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
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Author: Alison Espach
ISBN: 9781250871442

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Alison Espach

Publisher

Holt McDougal

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781250871442

Synopsis "Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance "

Named a Best Book of 2022 by NPR and The Chicago TribuneFrom Alison Espach, author of the New York Times Editors' Choice novel The Adults, comes a dazzlingly unconventional love story for readers of Ask Again, Yes and Tell the Wolves I'm Home. For much of her life, Sally Holt has been mystified by the things her older sister, Kathy, seems to have been born knowing. Kathy has answers for all of Sally's questions about life, about love, and about Billy Barnes, a rising senior and local basketball star who mans the concession stand at the town pool. The girls have been fascinated by Billy ever since he jumped off the roof in elementary school, but Billy has never shown much interest in them until the summer before Sally begins eighth grade. By then, their mutual infatuation with Billy is one of the few things the increasingly different sisters have in common. Sally spends much of that summer at the pool, watching in confusion and excitement as her sister falls deeper in love with Billy--until a tragedy leaves Sally's life forever intertwined with his. Opening in the early nineties and charting almost two decades of shared history and missed connections, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance is both a breathtaking love story about two broken people who are unexplainably, inconveniently drawn to each other and a wryly astute coming-of-age tale brimming with unexpected moments of joy. "Heartbreaking and funny, often in the same sentence--a deeply felt, finely wrought, and highly satisfying novel. Alison Espach has created a family whose every sorrow, joy, and idiosyncrasy is utterly, vibrantly real."--New York Times bestselling author Claire Lombardo

Alison Espach

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Alison Espach is an American novelist known for her sharp social observation and engaging narrative style. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis and currently teaches creative writing at Providence College, Rhode Island.

Among her notable works is "The Wedding People" (2024), a novel that explores human connections and second chances. This book was awarded the Goodreads Choice Award in the Fiction category in 2024. Another of her notable novels is "The Adults" (2011), selected as Editor's Choice by The New York Times and as a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick.

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