A funny and heartbreaking coming-of-age story about two sisters in a small town in 1990s Connecticut, from the bestselling author of The Wedding People
A funny and heartbreaking coming-of-age story about two sisters in a small town in 1990s Connecticut, from the bestselling author of The Wedding People
'Heartbreaking and funny, often in the same sentence'
Claire Lombardo, bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever HadSally Holt has always 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 local basketball star who runs the refreshment stand at the town pool. Billy's unfathomable, otherworldly cool puts him on a different planet - 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 a dazzlingly unconventional love story that brims with unexpected moments of joy.Alison Espach is the author of three novels including The Wedding People, which was selected for the Read With Jenna book club and became a major international bestseller. Her short stories and essays have appeared in a wide range of publications, including McSweeney's and Vogue. She is a professor of creative writing at Providence College in Rhode Island.
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