"A husband and wife hear a mysterious bump in the night. A father mourns the closeness he has lost with his son. A friendship with a married couple turns into a dangerous co-dependency. With gorgeous sensitivity, assurance, and a propulsive sense of menace, these stories center on disappearances both literal and figurative-lives and loves that are cut short, the vanishing of one's youthful self. From San Antonio to Austin, from the clamor of a crowded restaurant to the cigarette at a lonely kitchen table, Andrew Porter captures each of these relationships mid-flight, every individual life punctuated by loss and beauty and need. The Disappeared reaffirms the undeniable artistry of a contemporary master of the form"-- Provided by publisher.

"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf" -- Title page verso.

Austin -- Cigarettes -- Vines -- Limes -- Cello -- Rhinebeck -- Chili -- Breathe -- Silhouettes -- Heroes of the Alamo -- Bees -- Pozole -- Jimena -- The empty unit -- The disappeared.