So Far Gone: A Novel
National Bestseller"A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It’s an American original.”—Ann Patchett“Searing and sublime.”—Los Angeles Times. “Walter is a beacon of wit, decency and style.”—Kirkus (starred review) From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins comes a hilarious and provocative novel—a propulsive, rollicking, razor-sharp, and moving road trip through a fractured nation—about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren.
Rhys Kinnick has gone off the grid. At Thanksgiving a few years back, a fed-up Rhys punched his conspiracy-theorist son-in-law, chucked his smartphone out a car window, and fled for a cabin in the woods.Now Kinnick’s old life is about to land right back on his crumbling doorstep. Can this failed husband and father, a man with no internet and a car that barely runs, reemerge into a broken world to track down his missing daughter and save his grandchildren from the members of a dangerous militia?With the help of his caustic ex-girlfriend, a bipolar retired detective, and his only friend, Kinnick heads off on a wild journey through cultural lunacy and the rubble of a life he thought he’d left behind.
National Bestseller"A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It’s an American original.”—Ann Patchett“Searing and sublime.”—Los Angeles Times. “Walter is a beacon of wit, decency and style.”—Kirkus (starred review) From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins comes a hilarious and provocative novel—a propulsive, rollicking, razor-sharp, and moving road trip through a fractured nation—about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren.
Rhys Kinnick has gone off the grid. At Thanksgiving a few years back, a fed-up Rhys punched his conspiracy-theorist son-in-law, chucked his smartphone out a car window, and fled for a cabin in the woods.Now Kinnick’s old life is about to land right back on his crumbling doorstep. Can this failed husband and father, a man with no internet and a car that barely runs, reemerge into a broken world to track down his missing daughter and save his grandchildren from the members of a dangerous militia?With the help of his caustic ex-girlfriend, a bipolar retired detective, and his only friend, Kinnick heads off on a wild journey through cultural lunacy and the rubble of a life he thought he’d left behind.
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National Bestseller"A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It’s an American original.”—Ann Patchett“Searing and sublime.”—Los Angeles Times. “Walter is a beacon of wit, decency and style.”—Kirkus (starred review) From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins comes a hilarious and provocative novel—a propulsive, rollicking, razor-sharp, and moving road trip through a fractured nation—about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren.
Rhys Kinnick has gone off the grid. At Thanksgiving a few years back, a fed-up Rhys punched his conspiracy-theorist son-in-law, chucked his smartphone out a car window, and fled for a cabin in the woods.Now Kinnick’s old life is about to land right back on his crumbling doorstep. Can this failed husband and father, a man with no internet and a car that barely runs, reemerge into a broken world to track down his missing daughter and save his grandchildren from the members of a dangerous militia?With the help of his caustic ex-girlfriend, a bipolar retired detective, and his only friend, Kinnick heads off on a wild journey through cultural lunacy and the rubble of a life he thought he’d left behind.
