A group of New Yorkers are brought together by the search for a missing woman in this electric novel of secrets, connection and community.**A ROXANE GAY BOOK CLUBPICK**Absolutely unputdownableCLAIRE LOMBARDO, author ofThe Most Fun We Ever HadRiveting and originalCHARMAINE WILKERSON, author ofBlack CakeBrooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his blonde, blue-eyed, pregnant wife Darla head upstate to their summer cottage to wait out the lockdown. Not everyone in their fancy apartment building has this privilege: not Xavier, the restless teenager in the Cardi B t-shirt, nor Darlas black best friend Ruby and her partner Katsumi, who stay behind to save their restaurant.During an upstate hike, Theo lets slip a long-held secret about his mixed-up ancestry. When Darla disappears after the ensuing argument, he suddenly finds himself the prime suspect at the centre of a front-page police search for the perfect missing womanA lush study of relationshipsRAVEN LEILANI, author ofLusterAs gripping as it is cleveri PAPERAstounding Were so lucky to have itBRYAN WASHINGTON, author ofMemorialA marvel A masterpiecePAUL HARDING, author ofThis Other EdenGloriousGARY SHTEYNGART, author ofOur Country Friends