At age thirty, Kyle Boelte finds himself living in San Francisco, where the summer fog blows inland off the ocean and the landscape changes moment to moment. Amid this ever changing sea of fog, Boelte struggles to remember his brother Kris, who committed suicide in the family’s Denver home when Boelte was just thirteen. In this impressive debut, Boelte weaves together two compelling narratives: one investigates San Francisco’s climate to explain the city’s omnipresent fog; the other explores his memory as well as a collage of artifacts that tell the story of his brother’s short life and eventual suicide. “The Beautiful Unseen is its own weather system: soulful, unpredictable, shadow then light."—Terry Tempest Williams, author of Refuge "A slim book of startling prose, The Beautiful Unseen slips between past and present, inner life and outer, seamlessly and beautifully. It's that rare, treasured thing: a moving portrait of loss that never settles for easy answers." — Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life