Imagine Me Gone is a 2016 novel by American author and novelist Adam Haslett. It concerns a couple, Margaret and John, who marry despite John's crippling depression, and is narrated by the couple and their three children. The novel won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the National Book Award.
Reception Critics particularly focused on the quality of Haslett's prose. Lara Feigel, writing for The Guardian called his writing "finely adapted for each of the characters". NPR's Heller McAlpin noted how, "Haslett's signature achievement in Imagine Me Gone is to temper the harrowing with the humorous while keeping a steady bead on the pathos."
Awards Year Award Category Result Ref. 2016 Kirkus Prize Fiction Los Angeles Times Book Prize Fiction National Book Award Fiction National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Fiction Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize — Pulitzer Prize Fiction St. Francis College Literary Prize —
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