American Purgatorio

A man's search for his missing wife becomes an existential quest across America in the acclaimed author's “strange and compelling” debut novel ( Publishers Weekly ). “I’m from Chicago originally. I went to New York, married a girl named Anne, and was in the middle of living happily ever after when something happened.” So begins John Haskell’s mesmerizing first novel, American Purgatorio , the story of a happily married man who discovers, as he walks out of a convenience store, that his life has