Selby Green tries to change her life, but finds she cannot control events that take her life and turn it inside-out. Edmund Eben's life is changed by war and politics, he thinks, but women exert the most significant, moving shifts in him. Whether these two people ever meet is up to how successfully they disappear from their ordinary existence. 

How to Disappear is a heart wrenching, heartwarming novel in two parts, which links the lives of a disappointed woman living a grey existence and a man whose harsh migrant experience does not prepare him for love. 

“The stark, poetic language ... is mesmerizing and convincing.” Lissa V. Fairbairn