Heroes of the Frontier

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Call Number: Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / Eggers, Dave
On Shelf At: Pittsfield Branch

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Read by Rebecca Lowman.
Josie and her childrens father have split up, shes been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and shes grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancées family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation: they see bears and bison, they eat hot dogs cooked on a bonfire, and they spend nights parked along icy cold rivers in dark forests. But as they drive, pushed north by the ubiquitous wildfires, Josie is chased by enemies both real and imagined, past mistakes pursuing her tiny family, even to the very edge of civilization.

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Not National Lampoon Vacation! submitted by Judeyblu on July 29, 2017, 10:43pm Eggers struck a sour note for me with this book; I can't believe he knows, not really, what it's like to be a mother responsible for two children. No way would she act like this.
However, in a Forrest Gumpian-way, this is a good read.