![]() In contrast, Haslett’s female characters - Margaret, Celia and even Michael’s coterie of curious lovers - are less vivid than the men, though this may be by design. I’d never known a body could be so free of tension and still remain upright.” The muscles of my face became so relaxed I expected to look in the the mirror and see a basset hound. … That was the thing about Klonopin: It didn’t just void my anxiety, it diagnosed my state like the X-ray of a fractured bone. The kind of big, solar smile that suffuses your whole torso, as if your organs are grinning. Here, for example, is Michael describing the first time he took the pill that would possess him for the rest of his life: “I couldn’t stop smiling. Haslett is especially adept at depicting the obsessive male psyche in the midst of meltdown, whether over relationships or music or while on drugs. ![]() What elevates it above those is the finesse of his writing. ![]() In this way, Imagine Me Gone is not so different from the tens of thousands of family narratives that have come before it. ![]()
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