Nobody Is Ever Missing A Novel
Nobody Is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey, published by Macmillan on July 8, 2014, is a novel that explores the complexities of love, loss, and self-discovery. In this 244-page work, Elyria embarks on a spontaneous journey to New Zealand, leaving behind her seemingly stable life in Manhattan without informing her family. As she navigates her new surroundings, Elyria grapples with her inner turmoil, revealing the tension between her external experiences and internal struggles.
Readers will find a narrative rich with psychological depth and dark humor as Elyria encounters a variety of people and situations that challenge her understanding of herself. The story delves into themes of obsession and the quest for identity, as Elyria’s risky adventures lead her to confront her past and the haunting memory of her sister’s death. Catherine Lacey’s writing captures the nuances of human anxiety and self-awareness, offering insights into the complexities of existence while maintaining a sense of levity amidst the darkness.
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In the spirit of Haruki Murakami and Amelia Gray, Catherine Lacey’s Nobody Is Ever Missing is full of mordant humor and uncanny insights, as Elyria waffles between obsession and numbness in the face of love, loss, danger, and self-knowledge.
Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable but unfulfilling life in Manhattan. As her husband scrambles to figure out what happened to her, Elyria hurtles into the unknown, testing fate by hitchhiking, tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers, and sleeping in fields, forests, and public parks.
Her risky and often surreal encounters with the people and wildlife of New Zealand propel Elyria deeper into her deteriorating mind. Haunted by her sister’s death and consumed by an inner violence, her growing rage remains so expertly concealed that those who meet her sense nothing unwell. This discord between her inner and outer reality leads her to another obsession: If her truest self is invisible and unknowable to others, is she even alive?
The risks Elyria takes on her journey are paralleled by the risks Catherine Lacey takes on the page. In urgent, spiraling prose she whittles away at the rage within Elyria and exposes the very real, very knowable anxiety of the human condition. And yet somehow Lacey manages to poke fun at her unrelenting self-consciousness, her high-stakes search for the dark heart of the self.
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