Five top books on missing persons and absent figures

Heidi Julavits's novels are The Uses of Enchantment, The Effect of Living Backwards, The Mineral Palace, and The Vanishers.

For the Wall Street Journal, she named a five best list of books on missing persons and absent figures, including:Erasure
by Percival Everett (2001)

The main character of Percival Everett's novel is Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, the author of a number of mixedly received