You can run all the way to New Zealand, but eventually you'll
catch up with yourself
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
fields, forests, and public parks.
Her risky and often surreal encounters with the people and
wildlife of New Zealand propel Elyria deeper into her deteriorating
mind. Haunted by her sister's death and consumed by an inner
violence, her growing rage remains so expertly concealed that those
who meet her sense nothing unwell. This discord between her inner
and outer reality leads her to another obsession: If her truest
self is invisible and unknowable to others, is she even
alive?
The risks Elyria takes on her journey are paralleled by the risks
Catherine Lacey takes on the page. In urgent, spiraling prose she
whittles away at the rage within Elyria and exposes the very real,
very knowable anxiety of the human condition. And yet somehow Lacey
manages to poke fun at her unrelenting self-consciousness, her
high-stakes search for the dark heart of the self. In the spirit of
Haruki Murakami and Amelia Gray, "Nobody Is Ever Missing" is full
of mordant humor and uncanny insights, as Elyria waffles between
obsession and numbness in the face of love, loss, danger, and
self-knowledge.
General
Imprint: |
Fsg Originals
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2014 |
First published: |
July 2014 |
Authors: |
Catherine Lacey
|
Dimensions: |
192 x 128 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
244 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-374-53449-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
0-374-53449-7 |
Barcode: |
9780374534493 |
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