![]() And so there's a psych intake form and there's a family therapy session narrated as though it were an after-action report from the military. And that's when I came across this - or, you know, found in my writing this parody of forms. And so my challenge in trying to get him as a character on the page was to try to find the right rhythm or music to the prose that I was portraying him with that would bring that across. And he also suffers from really severe anxiety. He is a boy and then a man who has a very sharp sense of humor and a kind of fanatical desire to convert those around him to the music that he loves. ![]() SIMON: Tell us about Michael, who's at the center of the narrative of these five voices. Thanks so much for being with us.ĪDAM HASLETT: Thanks, Scott. You begin to understand how each person shares some of the sting of that illness but also sometimes some of the wisdom experience can bring.Īdam Haslett's new book is "Imagine Me Gone." And Adam Haslett, a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, joins us from New York. Each gets certain chapters to tell, as does Margaret, John's wife, and Celia and Alec, their youngest children. ![]() Adam Haslett's long-awaited second novel is told through the five voices of a family in which the father, John, has a mental illness, a sort of hibernation he calls it, that he winds up sharing with his oldest son Michael. No one in a family has an illness alone, especially mental illness. ![]()
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