Departure(s) Silas House has gone missing

has gone missing

harder to forget

a drug that enhances those who take it into a more perfect version of themselves: more beautiful

And her husband is keeping secrets

She is an ideal citizen: cheerfully cynical

Departure(s) Silas House has gone missingOn the occasion of his eightieth birthday, one of our great novelists delivers a playful and profound work about memory, love, and the writer's endgame. A culmination . . . shimmering with [Barness] silky, erudite prose; beneath the suave surface is an earnest investigation into the mysterious ways of the human heart. The Atlantic Shortly after our narrator, a writer named Julian, begins this compact book by discussing the workings of involuntary