San Antonio College Library

"A novel about a family of four, on the cusp of fracture, who take a trip across America-- a story told through varying points of view, and including archival documents and photographs"-- "From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America-- a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today. A mother...

"Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants. A torrent of consciousness, narrated in a single sentence by a woman whose wandering thoughts...