Named a Best Book of 2022 by NPR and The Chicago Tribune
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From Alison Espach, author of the New York Times Editors' Choice novel
The Adults, comes a dazzlingly unconventional love story for readers
of Ask Again, Yes and Tell the Wolves I'm Home.**
For much of her life, Sally Holt has been mystified by the things her
older sister, Kathy, seems to have been born knowing. Kathy has answers
for all of Sally's questions about life, about love, and about Billy
Barnes, a rising senior and local basketball star who mans the
concession stand at the town pool. The girls have been fascinated by
Billy ever since he jumped off the roof in elementary school, but Billy
has never shown much interest in them until the summer before Sally
begins eighth grade. By then, their mutual infatuation with Billy is one
of the few things the increasingly different sisters have in common.
Sally spends much of that summer at the pool, watching in confusion and
excitement as her sister falls deeper in love with Billy--until a
tragedy leaves Sally's life forever intertwined with his.
Opening in the early nineties and charting almost two decades of shared
history and missed connections, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance is
both a breathtaking love story about two broken people who are
unexplainably, inconveniently drawn to each other and a wryly astute
coming-of-age tale brimming with unexpected moments of joy.
"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."--New York Times bestselling author Claire Lombardo
