Census

✍ Scribed by Ball, Jesse

• Book ID: 109582854
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780062676153

✦ Synopsis

NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2018 BY

**The New York Times • The Chicago Reader • Nylon • The Boston Globe• **The Huffington Post • The Rumpus • The AV Club • Southern Living • The Millions • Buzzfeed

A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devastating revelation, a father and son journey north across a tapestry of towns

When a widower receives notice from a doctor that he doesn't have long left to live, he is struck by the question of who will care for his adult son--a son whom he fiercely loves, a boy with Down syndrome. With no recourse in mind, and with a desire to see the country on one last trip, the man signs up as a census taker for a mysterious governmental bureau and leaves town with his son.

Traveling into the country,...