In the opening sections, Haslett attempts to build on these early years, a time that is unexpectedly filled with moments of great happiness and also with devastating heartbreak.
Is always the most adult of the three, and Alec ends up becoming a caregiver to his mother and his eldest brother. Firstborn Michael, an introvertįills most of his hours with reading and sketching out his elaborate parodies. Margaret, an American, has been living in London for several months when she meets handsome John, who seduces her with his “ready sense of mystery.” Yet hiding behind John’s steadfast exuberance and his very “British way of loving” is blinding mental fog.Ĭouple struggle to establish their lives with their emerging brood. Almost without our realizing it, Haslett’s novel traffics in memory, regret, and the fate of relationships in a world of family melancholy where, in matters of the heart, people sometimes do foolish and selfish things. (Alec, Celia, and Michael), Haslett explores the struggles of mental illness while also exposing the terribly cost of chemical dependency that is prescribed to treat it. Through the alternate voices of Margaret, her husband, John, and their three children
Book review: Adam Haslett's *Imagine Me Gone*
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