Run for the Hills

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A road trip across America brings a family together, in this raucous and moving new novel from the bestselling author of Nothing to See Here.

Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, its just been Madeline Hill and her mother on their Tennessee farm. Its mostly okay. Maybe sometimes a bit lonely. Then one day a stranger pulls up in a rental car and informs Madeline that hes her half brother, Reuben, abandoned by their dad thirty years ago. Reuben has hired a detective to track down their father, along with a string of other half siblings. And he wants Mad to join him on a cross-country road trip to find them all.

As Mad and Rube and eventually the others share stories of their father, they realise he behaved quite differently in all of his lives, and begin to question what he was looking for each time. What kind of man will they find Who are they to one another And how will these new relationships change Mads previously solitary life on the farm Infused with deadpan wit and enormous heart, Run for the Hills is a family saga like no othera novel about a family forged in unlikely circumstances, united by hope in an unknown future.

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A work of genius: surprising, funny, sad, and completely originalWilson is a fantastic talentWe need novels like this urgently. Nick Hornby * Nick Hornby on Nothing to See Here *
A big-hearted nerdy romance that evolves into a more ambivalent meditation on the power of art. * Cameron Woodhead on Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Age *
Now is Not the Time to Panic is a tender and humorous coming-of-age novel that explores the trials, pain and wonder of adolescence and artistic pursuit. * Sarah LEstrange, ABC Arts on Now is Not the Time to Panic *

Author Bio

Kevin Wilson is the author of the New York Times bestseller Nothing to See Here, as well as the novels The Family Fang, Perfect Little World, and Now Is Not the Time to Panic, and the short-story collections Tunneling to the Center of the Earth and Baby Youre Gonna Be Mine. He lives with his family in Sewanee, Tennessee, where he is an associate professor in the English department at Sewanee: The University of the South.