National Bestseller "A warm funny loving novel. . . . It's an American original."—Ann
Patchett New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake "Who better to give us the latest
version of a recluse with a heart of gold than Walter?... It’s a gleeful kooky and tender
homage to Charles Portis’ “True Grit” with echoes of Tom Robbins and yes Elinor Lipman too.” —
Los Angeles Times A Vogue “Best Book of the Year” * An Amazon “Best Book of the Year” * A
Publishers Weekly "Most Anticipated" * A Washington Post “Most Anticipated” * An Oprah's Book
Club “Best Summer Read” * An Esquire “Best Book of the Summer” * A Los Angeles Times “Must Read
Book for the Summer” * A New York Times “Book to Read This Summer” * A Good Morning America
"Kate and Charlies Ultimate Summer Read" * A CBS Sunday “New Summer Read * An NPR “Dark Tale to
Hit the Shelves” * An Elle “Best Book of the Summer” * A Lit Hub “Must Read Book for the
Summer” * A Chicago Tribune “ Summer Book” * A Minnesota Star Tribune "Terrific Book for the
Beach" * An Alta Magazine "Book of the Month" * A New York Times "New Book We Recommend" * A
Lit Hub "Best Reviewed Book" * A NY Post "Best New Book" * A New York Times "Book Readers Are
Most Excited About This Summer" * A Huffingting Post "Book that Should Be on Your Summer
Reading List" * An Airmail “Best Read of the Week” * A Publishers Weekly Starred Review * A
Kirkus Starred Review * A Library Journal Starred Review * A BuzzFeed "Book That Should Be On
Your Summer Reading List" From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins —and
in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis’ True Grit —comes a hilarious empathetic and
brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America 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 in the mouth chucked his smartphone out a car window and fled for a cabin in the
woods with no one around except a pack of hungry raccoons. 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 sweet precocious grandchildren from the members of a dangerous militia?
With the help of his caustic ex-girlfriend a bipolar retired detective and his only friend
(who happens to be furious with him) Kinnick heads off on a wild journey through cultural
lunacy and the rubble of a life he thought he’d left behind. So Far Gone is a rollicking
razor-sharp and moving road trip through a fractured nation from a writer who has been called
“a genius of the modern American moment” ( Philadelphia Inquirer ).
