"Imagine I'm gone" has been described in the English-speaking press as "breathtaking," "overwhelming and heartbreaking," and celebrated as "literature of the highest order." The book has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is a modern family novel in the tradition of significant and cosmopolitan American literature. Everything begins with a tragedy during a country outing in Maine. No, earlier: It starts in the 1960s in London, when young American Margaret learns that John, her fiancé, has not simply disappeared but has been committed to a psychiatric hospital due to manic depression. Faced with a choice, she decides to live by his side, a life intertwined with his illness. What follows is the story of a family over two generations, the tale of hereditary bipolar disorder.