Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear: A Novel

From the bestselling author of The Hundred-Year Flood comes an incredibly entertaining and profoundly affecting tour de force about a Korean American man's strange and ordinary attempts to exist. 

"This is an existentialist tale for the 21st century. An amazing story of a Korean American man’s attempt to just…be. This is a meaningful story that overflows with deep thoughts, set in today’s troubled political climate. It is full of humour, pathos, ingenuity, and depth."  -  Dublin Literary Awards

Matt Kim is always tired. He keeps passing out. His cat is dead. His wife and daughter have left him. He's estranged from his adoptive family. People bump into him on the street as if he isn't there. He is pretty sure he's disappearing. His girlfriend, Yumi, is less convinced. 

But then she runs into someone who looks exactly like her, and her doppelgänger turns out to have dated someone who looks exactly like Matt. Except the other Matt was superior in every way. He was clever, successful, generous, and beloved - until one day he suddenly and completely vanished without warning. 

"The use of surrealism to interrogate the erasure of Asian American bodies and the trauma of being disappeared by whiteness is heightened by angled takes on recent history...Salesses's tale on the nature of existence triumphs with literary trickery." -  Publishers Weekly

Set in a troubling time in which a presidential candidate is endorsed by the KKK and white men in red hats stalk Harvard Square, Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear is a haunting and frighteningly funny novel about Asian American stereotypes, the desires that make us human, puns, and what happens to the self when you have to become someone else to be seen.