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Heroes of the Frontier

✍ Scribed by Eggers, Dave


Book ID
108788311
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2016
Tongue
en-US
Weight
371 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis


"A picaresque adventure and spiritual coming-of-age tale β€” On the Road crossed with Henderson the Rain King... Deeply affecting."
β€”Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
A captivating, often hilarious novel of family, loss, wilderness, and the curse of a violent America, this is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure.

Josie and her children's father have split up, she's been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she's grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancΓ©e's family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation: They see bears and bison, they eat hot dogs cooked on a bonfire, and they spend nights...


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