Imagine Me Gone (Audiobook)

from tinkerbellkk

A pretty hard read about how mental health issues and depression can seriously impact surrounding family members. And how doctor's treatment of these diseases can sometimes lead family members to extreme measures in order to help those that they love. The author did an amazing job detailing the i...

from SamSattler

After hearing Adam Haslett read the first two sections of Imagine Me Gone at the 2016 Texas Book Festival, I was intrigued enough to grab a copy of it before heading for home. The novel is told via alternating points-of-view sections narrated by a family of five: John, Margaret, and their three c...

from Bostonseanachie

Haslett's latest novel is a compact tale of lives that revolve around the indisputable gravity of mental illness. Narrated in turns by the three children and two parents of an Anglo-American family alternately living in a leafy Boston suburb (which resembles the author's home town of Wellesley), ...

from arubabookwoman

This was a touching character study of a family whose ethos is intertwined with and impacted by mental illness over two generations. Despite John having a complete nervous breakdown shortly before their marriage, Margaret decided to marry him anyway. Together they have two sons, Michael (who also...

from dawnlovesbooks

This book is a heavy read. It is about John and Margaret and their three children Alec, Celia, and Michael. Margaret married John knowing that he had issues with severe depression. He suffered through difficult episodes of it his whole life. Sometimes he would just completely shut down, for weeks...