A group of New Yorkers are brought together by the search for a missing woman in this electric novel of secrets, connection and community.

**A ROXANE GAY BOOK CLUB PICK**

‘Absolutely unputdownable’ CLAIRE LOMBARDO, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had
‘Riveting and original’ CHARMAINE WILKERSON, author of Black Cake

Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his blonde, blue-eyed, pregnant wife Darla head upstate to their summer cottage to wait out the lockdown. Not everyone in their fancy apartment building has this privilege: not Xavier, the restless teenager in the Cardi B t-shirt, nor Darla’s black best friend Ruby and her partner Katsumi, who stay behind to save their restaurant.

During an upstate hike, Theo lets slip a long-held secret about his mixed-up ancestry. When Darla disappears after the ensuing argument, he suddenly finds himself the prime suspect at the centre of a front-page police search for the perfect missing woman…

‘A lush study of relationships’ RAVEN LEILANI, author of Luster

‘As gripping as it is clever’ i PAPER

‘Astounding… We’re so lucky to have it’ BRYAN WASHINGTON, author of Memorial

‘A marvel… A masterpiece’ PAUL HARDING, author of This Other Eden

‘Glorious’ GARY SHTEYNGART, author of Our Country Friends

"A work of great ambition and elan" - Observer

"An astonishing accomplishment . . . I would greedily follow this writer anywhere. . . . This is the Covid novel you didn’t know you wanted to catch" - The Washington Post

"This novel is as gripping as it is clever" - i