From the bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel comes a dazzling literary mystery about the lengths to which some people will go to rewrite their past.

Bestselling novelist Octavia Frost has just completed her latest book—a revolutionary novel in which she has rewritten the last chapters of all her previous books, removing clues about her personal life concealed within, especially a horrific tragedy that befell her family years ago.

On her way to deliver the manuscript to her editor, Octavia reads a news crawl in Times Square and learns that her rock-star son, Milo, has been arrested for murder. Though she and Milo haven’t spoken in years—an estrangement stemming from that tragic day—she drops everything to go to him.

The “last chapters” of Octavia’s novel are layered throughout The Nobodies Album —the scattered puzzle pieces to her and Milo’s dark and troubled past. Did she drive her son to murder? Did Milo murder anyone at all? And what exactly happened all those years ago? As the novel builds to a stunning reveal, Octavia must consider how this story will come to a close.

Universally praised for her candid explorations of the human psyche, Parkhurst delivers an emotionally gripping and resonant mystery about a mother and her son, and about the possibility that one can never truly know another person.

卡罗琳·帕克丝特（Carolyn Parkhurst）

美国畅销书作家。2003年，处女作《巴别塔之犬》甫一亮相，便力压《达·芬奇密码》《追风筝的人》，登上亚马逊、纽约时报等畅销书排行榜首，创造了新人新作的奇迹。作品30多种语言在世界各地出版，引起全球读者的热烈好评。

2010年《什么愿望都没实现的夏天》未出版即售出各国版权，6月出版后，《纽约时报》《出版家周刊》《华盛顿邮报》等相继刊发长篇书评，获得评论界的一致好评。另有作品《伊甸园的鹦鹉》等。