“There is no getting better,” he acknowledges. John is a decent husband and a loving father.until he can’t be anymore. Before their third child is born, John loses his London investment job and moves the family near Boston, where his struggles to fend off “the beast” continue to interfere at home and work. “His mind closes down,” his doctor tells her. She learns that his history of incapacitating bouts of depression started in childhood. Trouble begins early in a flashback to 1960s London when a young, spirited American, Margaret, is blindsided by the discovery that her charming, steadfast, British fiancé, John, has been hospitalized. Adam Haslett's second novel, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown, 356 pp., *** out of four stars), is a gut-wrenching immersion into mental illness and its debilitating impact on a family over four decades.
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