Family Life: Readings from Two Novels

In Imagine Me Gone, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-finalist Adam Haslett presents a fiercely intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most? In Margot Livesey’s Mercury: A Novel, an optometrist in suburban Boston, is sure that he and his wife, who runs the local stables, are both devoted to their two children and to each other, but when Mercury—a young thoroughbred with a murky past—arrives, everything changes.