So Far Gone

So Far GoneNational Bestseller Finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize "A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It's an American original."Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake "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

As her power and influence grows

more than a million readers—scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities—have been inspired by Anne Lamott’s hilarious

and proves what we've always suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: WASHINGTON POST

A mysterious island

He is interested

In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature

Augusta can’t help but be drawn to Esther’s curious methods

and grimly realistic

she flees her home—the Kingdom of Night—for the neighbouring Helios

Urgent and emotionally complex

where the secrets of her upbringing and the terrors of her past come rushing back to the surface