For readers of Everything I Never Told You, When I’m Gone, and Reservoir 13, an acclaimed, powerfully affecting, and lyrically beautiful novel about loss, memory, the lives we touch, and the way life goes on.
>
Finalist for a major award in Australia, the Readings Prize for New Fiction
A reader favorite that was featured in festivals and included in many Australian “best of/top books” lists:
– Australian Books to Get Excited About in the First Half of 2017
– Bountiful Year for Readers: Fairfax 2017 Preview
– Librarians Choose Top 10 Picks for March
– 100 Great Reads by Australian Women in 2017
The US debut of an American poet and novelist who has been living in Australia since 1999.
The novel has a highly original structure, in which the central character is absent from the start, following the accident that leaves her in a fatal coma. It is the multiple perspectives of a chorus of diverse characters remembering her and grieving her loss that convey Jean Harley to the reader and define her, like a multidimensional emotional holograph. As their lives inevitably evolve and continue in the days and months that follow, that image is sustained and intensified, like an indelible imprint, or the unique spirit of Jean Harley that lives on.
