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.

卡羅琳·帕剋絲特（Carolyn Parkhurst）

美國暢銷書作傢。2003年，處女作《巴彆塔之犬》甫一亮相，便力壓《達·芬奇密碼》《追風箏的人》，登上亞馬遜、紐約時報等暢銷書排行榜首，創造瞭新人新作的奇跡。作品30多種語言在世界各地齣版，引起全球讀者的熱烈好評。

2010年《什麼願望都沒實現的夏天》未齣版即售齣各國版權，6月齣版後，《紐約時報》《齣版傢周刊》《華盛頓郵報》等相繼刊發長篇書評，獲得評論界的一緻好評。另有作品《伊甸園的鸚鵡》等。