The Act of Disappearing, Nathan Gower
The Act of Disappearing, Nathan Gower
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The Act of Disappearing
A Novel

Author: Nathan Gower

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, Ashley Klanac

Unabridged: 12 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/28/2024


Synopsis

"Hauntingly beautiful.”
—Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue

“A thrilling story, remarkably told.”
—Lara Prescott, New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets We Kept

Julia White is struggling: her bartending job isn’t cutting it and her first book has sold hardly any copies. She’s broke, barely able to make ends meet while drowning in her late mother’s medical bills and reeling after a one-night stand with her ex-boyfriend, who’s now completely ghosted her. Enter Johnathan Aster, world-renowned photographer, with a proposal: he has a never-before-seen photograph of a woman falling from a train bridge, clutching what appears to be a baby. And he wants Julia to research the story.

Alternating between present-day Brooklyn and Kentucky as it enters the 1960s, the story unfolds as Julia races to find answers: Who was the woman in the photograph? Why was she on the bridge? And what happened to the baby? Each detail is more propulsive than the last as Julia unravels the mystery surrounding the Fairchilds of Gray Station and discovers a story more staggering than anything she could have imagined.  

About Nathan Gower

Nathan Gower isProfessor of English at Campbellsville University. He holds an MFA in fictionfrom Spalding University and a PhD in humanities with an emphasis in aestheticsand creativity from the University of Louisville. He lives with his family incentral Kentucky.


Reviews

Goodreads review by NZLisaM on December 15, 2024

Outlier alert! I don’t mind a slow burn mystery, but this was painfully slow and repetitive, especially the modern timeline. I persevered holding out for some surprising twists, but all three reveals I had figured out early. In fact the plot was straight out of an episode of one of my favourite TV s......more

Goodreads review by hollyreadit on May 27, 2024

BOOK OF THE YEAR CONTENDER! This book was incredible, and honestly, Fiona Davis said it best, the book was “hauntingly beautiful.” A combination of historical fiction and suspense had me hooked! The flashbacks learning about what was happening in real time, to the current timeline of trying to figure......more

Goodreads review by LadyAReads on January 22, 2025

Women’s Mental Health has never been a priority in the US. This is an amazing gripping story of one woman, how she grew up with a mentally unstable mother, and her life and death. # The Act of Disappearing # 1/16/2025 ~ 1/18/2025 # 5.0 / 5.0......more

Goodreads review by Tommy on March 15, 2024

I used to share all the books I recently read and loved with my grandfather. (He passed away in December 2023). I would love to hand him this book now and wait until we could talk about it, to hear him say, “That was a damn good book.”......more

Goodreads review by Simone on June 16, 2024

This book was fantastic! Five big fat stars for this masterpiece! I loved this book so much and I am so glad that I chose it to read as my final book of the month. This book has everything that a book lover will enjoy, starting with the short chapters, the drama, the suspense, heartbreak, twists, what......more