“What he had remembered was to tuck among his changes of clothes one of Regan's framed photographs of the four of them from a few summers back, at Lake Winnipesaukee. He set it up on the nightstand, as if he might swim down into the past, where nothing could go wrong.”

American author

Garth Risk Hallberg is an American author known for his debut novel, City on Fire, published by Knopf in 2015. He made his literary debut with that novel, which established him as a novelist to watch. Beyond that, the available record here is limited, so the main point of reference is his first book and his work as an author.