From the publisher: "Five minutes before her flight is set to take off, Kate Pulaski gives in to her siblings' request that she join them, along with her many half-siblings and most of her father's former wives, for a final farewell. Reunion takes place over the following four days, as family secrets are revealed, personal foibles are exposed, and Kate - an inveterate liar looking for a way to come clean - slowly begins to acknowledge the overwhelming similarities between herself and the man she never thought she'd claim as an influence, much less a father."

From Publishers Weekly: "After Nora Lindell goes missing on Halloween, stories about her disappearance multiply: she got into a car with an unknown man, she was seen at the airport, she simply walked away, she was abducted. Pittard dips into the points-of-view of various classmates to explore these possibilities and more. Perhaps Nora was murdered. One theory sends her to Arizona, where she raises twin daughters with a lover named Mundo, and another path leads her to a near-death experience in a cafe bombing in India. The story also outlines effects of the disappearance on Nora's family and classmates, who, even as they graduate, marry, and have children, never quite let go of Nora."

Hannah Pittard's upcoming book, <a href=https://amzn.to/2IlHBwR><em>Visible Empire</em></a>, releases next month, but her 2016 thriller is on sale today. From the publisher: "Mark and Maggie’s annual drive east to visit family has gotten off to a rocky start. By the time they’re on the road, it’s late, a storm is brewing, and they are no longer speaking to each other. Adding to the stress, Maggie—recently mugged at gunpoint—is lately not herself, and Mark is at a loss about what to make of the stranger he calls his wife. When the couple is forced to stop for the night at a remote inn completely without power, Maggie’s paranoia reaches an all-time and terrifying high. But as Mark finds himself threatened in a dark parking lot, it’s Maggie who takes control."

A Summer Reading Guide pick)! Atlanta native Pittard's new novel addresses themes that appear in today’s headlines, but she builds her story around an event from the history books: in 1962, a chartered jet crashed in Paris, with 121 influential leaders from Atlanta’s arts community on board. Pittard merges fact and fiction to explore the aftermath in a grieving community on the cusp of profound societal change, tracking three tense storylines over the course of one sweltering summer: a reporter whose mistress died in the crash, a talented African-American teen who runs away from home after being denied admission to a newly integrated school, and an aging diver whose long-buried and carefully-kept secrets are outed by the crash. Pittard deftly handles the dark and difficult content, but heads up: triggers abound.