The author of Please Don't Come Back from the Moon and My American Unhappiness delivers his breakout novel: a deft and hilarious exploration of the simmering tensions beneath the surface of a contented marriage that explode in the bedrooms and backyards of a small town over the course of a long, hot[...]

Tells a tale of fathers and sons, and of growing up the hard way. When Michael was sixteen his father left home. He wasn't the first to go. One by one other men in the blue-collar neighbourhood outside Detroit vanish. One props open the door to his shoe store and leaves a note. 'I'm going to the moo[...]