What would killing him accomplish? Nothing mostly. Then again neither would letting him
live. When Hester is diagnosed with cancer on her fortieth birthday she knows immediately
what she must do: abandon her possessions and drive to California to kill her estranged father.
With no friends or family tying her to the life she's built in New York City she quits her
wildly lucrative job in corporate law and sets off. She hasn't made it far when she runs into
John an eco-activist in need of a ride to superfund sites where he documents environmental
crimes. From five-star Midwestern hotels to cultish Southwestern compounds the two slowly make
their way across the country. But will the experiences they have along the way dissuade Hester
from her final goal? Ragingly singular and surprisingly moving combining tragic intensity and
pitch-black humour Bad Nature is an incendiary debut novel. Part road trip part revenge tale
part eco-thriller it's ultimately a deft examination of the futility of violence and the
eternal possibility of redemption.
