Description: Death is merely the starting point for this dark and riveting novel, the catalyst for a crisis that Anthony, a British journalist, finds himself mired in at midlife. His American wife, Lucy, has died suddenly, and accompanying his grief is the desperate need to know the details of the years he did not spend with her -- years that produced two children and an ex-husband who retained an emotional hold over her that endured even as their own marriage grew increasingly passionate. To satisfy his insatiable curiosity, Anthony travels to a remote patch of Nevada desert to meet the ex-husband. Their eerie, devastating encounter is the beginning of a journey that will take Anthony to the edge of madness, to a place where he is never far -- emotionally, and even more literally than he realizes -- from the woman he cannot let go.

Fast-paced, compelling, and written with the sharpest edge of the language, Thanksgiving is as mesmerizing as the compulsion it traces. An electrifying novel, it is a stunning departure for Michael Dibdin and certain to be his most widely read book yet.

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