WORLD GONE MISSING

In World Gone Missing, Laurie Ann Doyle&rsquo,s powerful debut collection, people have disappeared. In these twelve stories set in and around San Francisco, contemporary issues&mdash,divorce, sexual identity, homelessness&mdash,thread through a cast of memorable characters struggling to fill the void of a missing loved one. From the newly married couple anxiously searching for a brother who didn&rsquo,t come home one night, to the successful businesswoman increasingly obsessed with a high school friend she hasn&rsquo,t seen in decades, to the middle-aged clerk meet her son&rsquo,s birth-mother for the first time, Doyle&rsquo,s writing vividly evokes the loss and liberation absence can bring._,