“ A touching and generous romp of a novel . . . Wilson makes a bold and convincing case that
every real family is one you have to find and at some point choose even if it’s the one
you’re born into.” — New York Times Book Review An unexpected road trip across America brings
a family together in this raucous and moving new novel from the bestselling author of Nothing
to See Here. Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago it’s been just Madeline Hill and
her mom on their farm in Coalfield Tennessee. While it’s a bit lonely she sometimes admits
and a less exciting life than what she imagined for herself it’s mostly okay. Mostly. Then one
day Reuben Hill pulls up in a PT Cruiser and informs Madeline that he believes she’s his half
sister. Reuben—left behind by their dad thirty years ago—has hired a detective to track down
their father and a string of other half siblings. And he wants Mad to leave her home and join
him for the craziest kind of road trip imaginable to find them all. As Mad and Rube—and
eventually the others—share stories of their father who behaved so differently in each life he
created they begin to question what he was looking for with every new incarnation. Who are
they to one another? What kind of man will they find? And how will these new relationships
change Mad’s previously solitary life on the farm? Infused with deadpan wit zany hijinks and
enormous heart Run for the Hills is a sibling story like no other—a novel about a family
forged under the most unlikely circumstances and united by hope in an unknown future.
