The Disappeared
Book description
A collection of stories that trace the threads of loss and displacement running through all our lives, by the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Theory of Light and Matter
“What a beautiful book about the profound mystery of ordinary life.” —Alix Ohlin, author of We Want What We Want
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Why read it?
2 authors picked The Disappeared as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a collection after my own heart as a reader and writer. I love how tenderly Porter portrays his characters—people so much like ones I’ve known—as they try to come to terms with who they’ve become and who they used to be.
I felt like these stories spoke directly to the way I often find myself tripping through time, mourning friendships or romantic relationships that were suddenly cut short, and others that simply faded over time.
From Sue's list on short story love, loss, and starting over.
Each of Andrew Porter’s two story collections and one novel develop missing persons as a theme. His latest collection, The Disappeared, also continues the author’s tendency to use place in ways that both locate and isolate his characters.
We find ourselves mainly in San Antonio, and sometimes Austin, Texas in The Disappeared, but the protagonists are also linked by a recurrent sense of hesitancy, missed opportunity, and fecklessness. Each story is about being middle-aged, but by the end, Porter has masterfully balanced his depictions of urban-male domesticity with a deeper, more existential sense of being human.
It is Porter’s evocation…
From Robert's list on using disappearance in innovative ways.
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