We Disappear

“We Disappear is a mystery concerning the identity of a teenage boy and the people he draws into his web of half-truths. . . . It’s not hyperbole to suggest that We Disappear is the eeriest Kansas-set story since Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood." — Chicago Sun-TimesA dark and compellingnovel of addiction, obsession, love, and family from the acclaimed author of Mysterious SkinThe body of a teenage boy isdiscovered in a Kansas field. The murder haunts Donna—a recent widow battlingcancer—calling forth troubling details from long-suppressed memories of herpast. Hoping to discover more about "disappeared" people, she turnsto her son, Scott, who is fighting demons of his own. Addicted to methamphetaminesand sleeping pills, Scott is barely holding on—though the chance to help hismother in her strange and desperate search holds out a slim promise of somesmall salvation.But what he finds is a boy namedOtis handcuffed in a secret basement room, and the questions that arise seemtoo disturbing even to contemplate. With his mother's health rapidlydeteriorating, Scott must surrender to his own obsession, and unravel Otis'sunsettling connections to other missing teens . . . and, ultimately, to himself.