Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

“In Alison Espach’s hands, a teenage girl on the cusp of understanding, a dazzling older sister, and a small Connecticut town become a beautifully described world filled with characters I wanted to meet, characters I still think about. Their trials and tribulations and adolescent longing and awkwardness; their love for each other—it all felt amazingly real. Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance is the rare kind of book that made me both laugh and cry. It is hilarious and moving and deeply felt, and I was sad when it ended.”

—Anton DiSclafani, author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

 

“Espach is an immensely talented writer, and her prose unfolds with a devastating lightness of touch. This novel is deeply moving, always excellent, and often unexpectedly funny.”

—Emily St. John Mandel, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Hotel

 

“Oh how I loved this novel! Alison Espach masterfully examines the effects of devastating loss with enormous wit, charm, and intelligence. This is truly a novel like no other.”

—Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year

 

“This tragicomic bildungsroman in the shadow of loss will invade your heart and hold on tight.”

—Kirkus

 

“Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance is heartbreaking and funny, often in the same sentence--a 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, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had