Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel

Emily St. John Mandel writes well about loss and dislocation.  She displays this masterfully in her post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven, but she also exploits this theme with great satisfaction in Last Night in Montreal. She takes the disappearance of a young girl – a common enough theme in recent literature – and elevates it into a meditation on the sense of loss which pervades our life

We are all existentially anxious that somewhere, somehow, we are missing out on something.  This novel takes that feeling and gives it concrete expression.  In the process, she lays out our deepest desire for a home we never seen to find.