Vanished

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"Lin-Greenberg's flawless and insightful prose gives an acute sense of the characters' perspectives as they change. This accomplished work is full of surprises."-Publishers Weekly, starred review "In this compassionate, unapologetic, and hilarious collection, Karin Lin-Greenberg's unmistakably unique voice shines. The human struggle for connection guides us through each story's surprising world of art, pop culture, school, difficult relationships, and weird animals. I fell in love with these edgy, lost characters who bump into enlightenment by accident, and only after wading through oceans of denial and terrible choices. Vanished is a celebration of our flawed humanity."-Erika Krouse, author of Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation "The stories in Karin Lin-Greenberg's Vanished do not shy away from our current moment of division and estrangement. Like Richard Yates's Eleven Kinds of Loneliness or Stephanie Vaughn's Sweet Talk, Lin-Greenberg's Vanished is peopled with characters who are bitter and funny and who do questionable things-and who are, as a result, imminently human, unquestioningly alive on the page. An engrossing and extraordinary book by a true master of the form."-Nick White, author of Sweet and Low