Een Amerikaanse tandarts laat na een aanklacht van een patiΓ«nt haar ongelukkige huwelijk achter zich en vlucht met haar jonge kinderen naar Alaska, waar ze op zoek gaat naar een nieuwe invulling van hun leven.
Heroes of the Frontier
β 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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β¦ Synopsis
"A picaresque adventure and spiritual coming-of-age tale β On the Road crossed with Henderson the Rain King... Deeply affecting."
βMichiko 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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