The Imagined Life

"Andrew Porter has quietly become one of the United States’ most reliably great fiction writers. This novel tells the story of Steven Mills, a man whose family has fallen apart and who embarks on a trip up the coast of California to try to find out what happened to his father, who disappeared long ago. Porter evokes both 1980s and contemporary California perfectly and writes with a psychological insight that calls to mind John Cheever and Richard Yates. He’s that good."