{"product_id":"so-far-gone-a-novel-isbn-9780063566125","title":"So Far Gone: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It's an American original.\"—Ann Patchett, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eTom Lake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Searing and sublime … Walter is a slyly adept social critic, and has clearly invested his protagonist with all of the outrage and heartbreak he himself feels about the dark course our world has taken ... What gets us all through … are novels like this one.” Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e—and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis’ \u003ci\u003eTrue Grit\u003c\/i\u003e—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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRhys 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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. \u003ci\u003eSo Far Gone\u003c\/i\u003e 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” (\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Vogue, \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and Boston.com \"Best Book of the Year\" * A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \"New Book We Recommend\" * A \u003ci\u003eNY Post\u003c\/i\u003e \"Best New Book\" * An Oprah's Book Club, Good Morning America, \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, CBS Sunday, \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, BuzzFeed, and \u003ci\u003eMinnesota Star Tribune \u003c\/i\u003e\"Must Read Book for Summer\" * An \u003ci\u003eAlta Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \"Book of the Month\" * A \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e \"Best Reviewed Book\" * Starred reviews from \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/i\u003e* A \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \"Most Anticipated\" * An NPR \"Book We Love\" * A Chicago Public Library \"Favorite Book of the Year\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A wistful elegy — some might say a eulogy — to a kinder, gentler time … Among the many melancholy pleasures of this novel is that Walter synthesizes that desire many of us feel — and mostly resist — to crawl under the covers… Walter is a slyly adept social critic, and has clearly invested his protagonist with all of the outrage and heartbreak he himself feels about the dark course our world has taken....If there’s hope to be found within this harsh landscape, it’s in our connection with one another.... Or for that matter, novels like this one.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this brilliant and riotous jaunt through modern America,.... Walter’s “So Far Gone” is a standout read this summer.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As one would expect from a writer of Walter’s empathy and intelligence, \u003cem\u003eSo Far Gone\u003c\/em\u003e transcends the madcap misadventures of the Kinnick clan.... Walter makes an affecting, persuasive case that our deepest happiness is the sort we find closest to home.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48588042207461,"sku":"NP9780063566125","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/so-far-gone-a-novel-isbn-9780063566125","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}