?A serious, frequently brilliant novel with a sustained intensity that is rare in fiction. It?s the most promising first novel that I?ve encountered this year.? ?Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
?[A] searching, emotionally resonant first novel . . . [Nobody Is Ever Missing] impressed me, and held me to my chair. There?s significant talent at work here.? ?Dwight Garner, The New York Times
The 10th anniversary reissue of Catherine Lacey?s beloved, star-making debut novel Nobody Is Ever Missing: a mordant, uncanny, and unputdownable journey into one woman?s attempt to break free of her life.
Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable but unfulfilling life in Manhattan. As her husband scrambles to figure out what happened to her, Elyria hurtles into the unknown, testing fate by hitchhiking, tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers, and sleeping in fie
