In this shattering and iconic American novel, PEN prize-winning writer, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions.

After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face to face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times.

But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the F.B.I., putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 05/27/2014
ISBN: 9780062286444
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.60d
Award: Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize - Finalist
Award: Oregon Book Awards - Finalist
Award: Montana Book Award - Winner
Award: Literary Award - Finalist
Award: Indies Choice Book Awards - Honor Book

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2014 pg. 70
Booklist 04/01/2014 pg. 19
Publishers Weekly 03/31/2014
Library Journal 04/15/2014 pg. 77
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2014
Shelf Awareness 05/30/2014
Entertainment Weekly 05/30/2014 pg. 122
New York Times Book Review 07/06/2014 pg. 15
New York Times Book Review 07/13/2014 pg. 22
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/07/2014 pg. 26
Entertainment Weekly 12/12/2014 pg. 71
Library Journal 01/01/2014