Vacation

An "enthralling headscratcher of a first novel . . . weaves an intricate tale of quests and escapes" as a man follows his wife who follows a mysterious stranger (Publishers Weekly).

Deb Olin Unferth's award-winning debut novel is "an off-kilter ode to obsession" with a "richly textured, often surprising linguistic landscape" (The Rumpus). In it, a man named Myers has noticed that his wife has suddenly become suspiciously absent in the evenings. He decides to start following her on her eve...