'Heartbreaking and funny, often in the same sentence'Claire Lombardo
Sally Holt has always 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, the high school basketball star who runs the refreshment stand at the local pool. Billy's unfathomable, otherworldly cool puts him on a different planet - 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 a dazzlingly unconventional love story that brims with unexpected moments of joy.
Read MoreEspach is an immensely talented writer . . . This novel is deeply moving, always excellent, and often unexpectedly funny - Emily St. John Mandel, bestselling author of THE GLASS HOTELA deeply felt, finely wrought, and highly satisfying novel. Alison Espach has created a family whose every sorrow, joy, and idiosyncrasy is utterly, vibrantly real - Claire Lombardo, bestselling author of THE MOST FUN WE EVER HADTender, eloquent, and wise, this is an intensely beautiful book by a supremely gifted writer - Karen Thompson Walker, author of THE DREAMERS