{{Short description|2016 novel by Adam Haslett}} {{Use American English|date=April 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox book | name = Imagine Me Gone | title_orig = | translator = | image = Imagine Me Gone - cover.jpg | caption = Hardcover edition | border = yes | author = Adam Haslett | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | subject = | genre = Literary fiction | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | pub_date = 3 May 2016 | english_pub_date = | media_type = Print (hardcover & paperback) | pages = 368 pp. | isbn = 978-0-316-26135-7 | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''Imagine Me Gone''''' is a 2016 novel by American author and novelist Adam Haslett. It concerns a couple, Margaret and John, who marry despite John's crippling depression, and is narrated by the couple and their three children.<ref name="NPR">{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2016/05/04/476048053/unquiet-minds-make-absorbing-reading-in-imagine-me-gone |title=Unquiet Minds Make Absorbing Reading In 'Imagine Me Gone' |last=McCalpin |first=Heller |date=4 May 2016 |publisher=NPR Books |accessdate=23 January 2017}}</ref> The novel won the ''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize. It was shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the National Book Award.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2016#.WIZbsJJOE4B|title=2016 National Book Awards|year=2016|publisher=National Book Award|accessdate=23 January 2017}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Schaub |first=Michael |date=2017-04-13 |title=Adam Haslett, L.A. Times Book Prize finalist, discusses 'Imagine Me Gone' |url=https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-fob-adam-haslett-20170413-story.html |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Reception== Critics particularly focused on the quality of Haslett's prose.<ref name=NPR/><ref name=guardian>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/29/imagine-me-gone-by-adam-haslett-review|title=Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett review – tragedy, loss and transcendence|last=Feigel|first=Lara|date=29 June 2016|work=The Guardian|accessdate=23 January 2017}}</ref> Lara Feigel, writing for ''The Guardian'' called his writing "finely adapted for each of the characters".<ref name=guardian/> NPR's Heller McAlpin noted how, "Haslett's signature achievement in ''Imagine Me Gone'' is to temper the harrowing with the humorous while keeping a steady bead on the pathos."<ref name="NPR" />
==Awards== {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Year !! Award !! Category !! Result !! Ref. |- ! rowspan=4 | 2016 | Kirkus Prize || Fiction || {{sho|Finalist}} || |- | ''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize || Fiction|| {{won}} || <ref name=":1" /> |- | National Book Award || Fiction|| {{nom|Longlisted}} || <ref name=":0" /> |- | National Book Critics Circle Award || Fiction|| {{sho|Finalist}} || |- ! rowspan=4 | 2017 | Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence || Fiction || {{nom|Longlisted}} || |- | Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize || — || {{nom|Longlisted}} || <ref>{{Cite web |title=2017-2018 Simpson Family Literary Prize Longlist Announced |url=https://www.newliteraryproject.org/whats-new/2017-simpson-family-literary-prize-longlist-announced |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=New Literary Project |language=en-US}}</ref> |- | Pulitzer Prize || Fiction|| {{sho|Finalist}} || <ref>{{Cite web |last= |title=2017 Pulitzer Prizes |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2017 |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=The Pulitzer Prizes |language=en}}</ref> |- | St. Francis College Literary Prize || — || {{sho}} || <ref>{{Cite web |title=SFC Literary Prize |url=https://www.sfc.edu/events/series/sfc-literary-prize |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=St. Francis College |language=en}}</ref> |}
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