Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

Named a Best Book of 2022 by NPR and The Chicago Tribune From Alison Espach,author of the New York Times Editors’ Choice novel The Adultscomes a dazzlingly unconventional love story for readers of Ask AgainYes and Tell the Wolves IΓÇÖm Home. For much of her lifeSally Holt has been mystified by the things her older sisterKathyseems to have been born knowing. Kathy has answers for all of SallyΓÇÖs questions about lifeabout loveand about Billy Barnesa 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 schoolbut Billy has never shown much interest in them until the summer before Sally begins eighth grade. By thentheir 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 poolwatching in confusion and excitement as her sister falls deeper in love with BillyΓÇöuntil a tragedy leaves SallyΓÇÖs life forever intertwined with his. Opening in the early nineties and charting almost two decades of shared history and missed connectionsNotes on Your Sudden Disappearance is both a breathtaking love story about two broken people who are unexplainablyinconveniently drawn to each other and a wryly astute coming-of-age tale brimming with unexpected moments of joy. ΓÇ£Heartbreaking and funnyoften in the same sentenceΓÇöa deeply feltfinely wroughtand highly satisfying novel. Alison Espach has created a family whose every sorrowjoyand idiosyncrasy is utterlyvibrantly real.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöNew York Times bestselling author Claire Lombardo