Jacob Reynolds is an award-winning author of contemporary fiction whose work explores the quiet fractures and hard-won redemptions of modern life. With a voice shaped by the emotional rigor of Jennifer Egan, the social resonance of Colson Whitehead, and the tender insight of Miriam Toews, Jacob crafts stories that sit at the intersection of identity, mental health, and the evolving dynamics of family and community.
His characters often navigate the spaces between belonging and alienation, love and loss, hope and regret—always seeking, sometimes stumbling, toward something like home. Whether set in small towns shadowed by memory or cities pulsing with reinvention, his narratives reveal the resilience of people forced to reckon with themselves and each other.
When not writing, Jacob mentors emerging writers and speaks on the importance of authenticity in storytelling. He believes deeply in fiction’s capacity to reveal truths we’re not always ready to say aloud.
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All the Ways We Disappear
A literary mystery about the spaces between protest and silence, disappearance and return, and what it means to be truly seen.
When seventeen-year-old Camila Marlow vanishes during a high-profile climate protest in Portland, the media is quick to frame her as a runaway or just another teen swallowed by the chaos. But to Jesse Marlow—Camila’s estranged nonbinary sibling who left home ten years ago to live under a new name—none of the pieces make sense. Drawn back to the city they once fled, Jesse is thrust into a community grappling with loss, resistance, and the fragile weight of visibility.
As Jesse retraces Camila’s last known movements, interviewing friends, facing a mother who still calls them by the wrong name, and rediscovering a version of home they thought they’d buried, they begin to unravel not just the mystery of Camila’s disappearance—but the long, quiet ways people disappear from each other. Through video journals, fractured memories, and protest signs that double as elegies, Jesse begins to see their sister—and themselves—more clearly than ever before.
Told in alternating perspectives with lyrical depth and emotional clarity, All the Ways We Disappear is a story about chosen family, inherited silence, and the courage it takes to return—especially when you’re not sure you’ll be welcome. For readers of The Vanishing Half and Everything I Never Told You, this novel asks: what are we willing to risk to be truly known?