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By Thrity Umrigar

On Sale: Jan 27, 2026
Page Count: 320 pages
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN-13: 9781643757629

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A tense and twisty story of a woman who goes missing on a morning run and her wife’s determination to both find her and clear her own name–from the bestselling author of Honor

One night after a party, old grievances surface between married couple Aliya and Sam and the night ends badly with a heated argument. Sam goes for a run early the next morning to clear her head—and doesn’t come back.

Aliya reports her wife missing, but as a gay, Muslim daughter of immigrants, she can’t escape the scrutiny and suspicion of those around her. Scared and furious and feeling isolated as strangers and acquaintances alike doubt her innocence, Aliya makes one wrong choice after another. She must fight to prove her innocence in the public eye even as she is torn between her fear that Sam is dead and her desire to find and save her wife. But is safety ever truly possible for them?

A provocative examination of suburban mores, Missing Sam captures the terror manifested in today’s political climate, and the real dangers, both physical and psychological, of being brown and queer in America.

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"This novel kept me in a state of high anxiety from beginning to end. Missing Sam is a powerfully suspenseful and twisty novel that feels particularly potent in our contemporary moment."

Dan Chaon, author of One of Us
"Missing Sam is a novel that astutely explores the alchemy of a marriage under the pressure of an unspeakable crime. These characters will make your heart ache with their human foibles and troubled histories, and as they overcome odds to find hope and redemption, so too will you."

Shilpi Somaya Gowdi, author of A Great Country
"Missing Sam is a sneaky novel. At first glance, it appears to be a thriller about a missing woman. But in actuality, Thrity Umrigar writes about gender, prejudice, cultural identity, race, and the complexities of love and marriage. What a feat! Like Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere, this page turner delivers so much more than thrills and twists."
Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle
"Umrigar’s compelling latest is both a brilliant psychological thriller, and a deeply emotional meditation on race, sexuality, culture, marriage and family, both the ones we come from, and the ones we are lucky enough to create. Filled with achingly believable characters, the story keeps twisting and turning where you least expect until I was holding my breath even as I couldn’t stop turning pages. Yes, it’s achingly about enduring trauma, but it’s also about what a force our inner light can be against the darkness. What a novel."
Caroline Leavitt, bestselling author of Pictures of You

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Thrity Umrigar

About the Author

Thrity Umrigar is the bestselling author of nine previous novels, including Honor, which was a Reese’s Book Club Pick, as well as four picture books and a memoir. Her books have been published in over fifteen countries and in several languages. A former journalist, she has contributed to the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the New York Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and other newspapers. She is a recipient of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard, and winner of the Cleveland Arts Prize, the Seth Rosenberg prize and a Lambda Literary award. She is currently a Distinguished University Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University.

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