[1][2][3] His debut short story collection, You Are Not a Stranger Here, and his second novel, Imagine Me Gone, were both finalists for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

Haslett began his career as a writer with a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

This is the first story in his debut collection, You Are Not A Stranger Here, which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award and was a New York Times Bestseller.

The novel was finished the week that the 2008 financial crisis began, and is the portrait of the culture of impunity than led to the great recession.

It depicts a family coping with the intergenerational consequences of the father and eldest son's struggles with depression and anxiety.