A debut short story collection by Laurie Ann Doyle. Stories in this book have won the Alligator Juniper National Fiction Award, been nominated for Best New American Voices and the Pushcart Prize. Her stories and essays have also been published in The Los Angeles Review, Timber, Jabberwork Review, Under the Sun, and elsewhere.
In World Gone Missing, Laurie Ann Doyle's powerful debut collection, people have disappeared. In these twelve stories set in and around San Francisco, contemporary issues-divorce, sexual identity, homelessness-thread through a cast of memorable characters struggling to fill the void of a missing loved one. From the newly married couple anxiously searching for a brother who didn't come home one night, to the successful businesswoman increasingly obsessed with a high school friend she hasn't seen in decades, to the middle-aged clerk meet her son's birth-mother for the first time, Doyle's writing vividly evokes the loss and liberation absence can bring.
