Now You See It: A Novel [Paperback]

David and Jessica have almost everything they could want: he is an accomplished journalist, she teaches at an elite private school, and they travel in a circle of alluring friends. Theirs is an enviable life -- until one night when David returns from a business trip. Jessica's wallet and keys are in their usual place, but she is gone. As months pass without her, David's certainty that she is going to walk in that door tonight slowly diminishes.
At the heart of this unnerving story is David's search for his wife -- which takes him far from his Manhattan neighborhood and deep inside himself.
At once heartbreaking and wry,Now You See Itis a remarkable debut novel about the impossibility of fully knowing someone -- and what happens to the past when we have a second chance at the future.Now You See Itpresages a thrilling career for a fresh and gifted author.Allison Lynn is the recipient of two literary awards forNow You See It: The William Faulkner Medal for Best Novel-in-Progress, awarded by the William Faulkner Society, and The Chapter One Award, awarded by The Bronx Writers' Center.

Lynn graduated from Dartmouth College in 1991 and received her MFA in fiction from NYU. She has worked atHarper's BazaarandPeoplewhere she was a writer and reporter. She is a freelance writer forIn Style, The New York Times Book Review, andRedbook. Last year she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Lehigh University.Chapter One: July 1968

David's father is sure it will rain. Look up, he tells David. Those clouds will break soon. The sky hangs low and dark; the clouds sit heavy over dunes which are so high that David cannot see over them. When he does look up, David is surrounded by sand and sea and this murky sky that his father is sure will break. Incredible, David thinks. Incredible that water can suddenly pour from nowhere.

David lowers his gaze and watches his father and brother toss their fislƒB