Jess Walter

Mon, 27 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm UTC-04:00

Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland | Pittsburgh

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Jess Walter
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "Beautiful Ruins"—and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis’ "True Grit"—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.
Rhys 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.
Now 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?
With 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. "So Far Gone" 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” (Philadelphia Inquirer).
"So Far Gone" is available to pre-order through our partner bookseller White Whale Bookstore.
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Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland, 4400 Forbes Avenue,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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