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World Gone Missing by Laurie Ann Doyle, a Regal House publication

World Gone Missing

Rated 5.00 out of 5 based on 1 customer rating
(1 customer review)

$9.99 – $14.95

By Laurie Ann Doyle

2018 Silver Winner of the Nautilus Book Award

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SKU: N/A Category: Regal House Titles Tags: absence, Fiction, Laurie Ann Doyle, missing, Regal House, San Francisco, short stories
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In World Gone Missing, Laurie Ann Doyle’s powerful debut collection, people have disappeared. In these twelve stories set in and around San Francisco, contemporary issues—divorce, sexual identity, homelessness—thread through a cast of memorable characters struggling to fill the void of a missing loved one. From the newly married couple anxiously searching for a brother who didn’t come home one night, to the successful businesswoman increasingly obsessed with a high school friend she hasn’t seen in decades, to the middle-aged clerk meet her son’s birth-mother for the first time, Doyle’s writing vividly evokes the loss and liberation absence can bring.

Advance reviews for World Gone Missing:

” Laurie Ann Doyle understands how to structure a story so that it sneaks up on you and gives you a thump that leaves you breathless—breathless with wonder.”

– Catherine Brady, author of Best American Short Stories

“In World Gone Missing, Doyle reveals the potent possibilities of missed connections, which can veer from loss and estrangement at one moment to just-close-enough to redemption at another.”

– Catherine Brady, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction

“In World Gone Missing, we are swept along by these beautifully crafted stories, full of surprising truths that carry an exhilarating punch.”

– Nina Schuyler, author of the award-winning novel, The Translator

“Doyle shows real range in this collection, and she doesn’t flinch when rendering emotionally complex trajectories. I read this in a single sitting, which might be the biggest compliment to pay an author.”

– Joshua Mohr

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Weight .518 lbs
Dimensions 8 × .458 × 5.25 in
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Paperback, Epub

1 review for World Gone Missing

  1. Rated 5 out of 5

    Lily Iona MacKenzie – October 21, 2017

    World Gone Missing couldn’t be a better title for this deeply moving collection of short stories: People go missing. Lives go missing. Neighbors move and go missing, leaving gaps for those left behind. Parents go missing. Earlier selves go missing.

    Laurie Ann Doyle’s writing penetrates much like a surgeon’s scalpel as she investigates the many ways in which people go missing or don’t quite connect with the most important individuals in their lives. A birth mother has no interest in meeting the child she left behind in a hospital after giving birth to him. Ben, a brother disappears, and his family wonders, “’What are we going to do with all Ben’s stuff?’ Our house is full of everything we’ve bought together over the past two years, too full. Jack glances at me, then stares straight ahead. ‘I don’t know,’ he says.”

    And that’s the conclusion I have taken away from this wise collection of beautifully crafted stories: We often don’t have the answers to life’s most pressing problems, the missed connections, the difficulties communicating with one another or reconnecting with past friends. This quote from World Gone Missing says it all: “When we were seventeen we leaned into the wind of time, pressing everything forward. On. Now I want it all to hold still. Go back. ”

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