The Vanishing Act

forthcoming from Catapult Feb. 2027

“The Vanishing Act is a darkly funny and deceptively tender chronicle of one man’s drastic efforts to decrease his environmental footprint. Colm is the most beguiling and indelible narrator I’ve encountered in some time. I devoured this novel in a day and have been thinking about it ever since.”
—Isabel Kaplan, national bestselling author of NSFW

“An off-beat Requiem for a Dream for an anxious era, Connolly's The Vanishing Act is a finely wrought, tense, and tender exploration of disappearance as a solution to existence.”
—Lior Torenberg, author of Just Watch Me

“Hilarious, strange, and profoundly human. An absurdist delight about how connection and love will triumph even when we think it impossible.”
— Jade Song, award-winning author of Chlorine and I Love You Don't Die

“A striking, elegant, and witty novel, The Vanishing Act dissects our fumbling quest for purpose—and the ethics we haphazardly scaffold around it. It's as if Martin McDonagh wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. An assured and poignant debut.” — J.P. Lacrampe, author of VALET

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