Now You Are a Missing Person

Susan Hayden

Three devastating losses are at the heart of Susan Hayden’s lyrical memoir, Now You Are a Missing Person ― her father, her childhood best friend and her husband. In vivid stories, poems and fragments, she traces her search for equilibrium through lovers and friends, from the 1970s to now, in an LA populated by troubadours and actors. Ultimately she finds her footing in an ever-shifting culture of expectations around body image, sexuality, motherhood, widowhood and autonomy.