'“Original and brilliant.” —Lorrie Moore, author of A Gate at the Stairs   “The kind of story that I suspect people will be talking about in book clubs and sharing with neighbors . . . Strange and beautiful.” —The Washington Post   “Haunting, sorrowful, and full of humanity, this beautiful novel is an elegy to loss itself. It will stay with me for a long time.” —Ann Packer, author of The Dive from Clausen’s Pier   “A terrific novel—deeply original, smart, funny and heartbreaking . . . It’s a story for all of us—sons and wives and daughters, too, of the missing, the disappeared, the men on the moon.” —The Buffalo News  '