Booklist Starred Review

“Broudy’s narrative faintly echo[es] Jack Kerouac’s On the Road – his voice is lyrical and edgy, sceptical and empathetic.” —The Times Literary Supplement

Somewhere in the piney wilds of northern Arizona a man has gone missing. His friends and followers fear he has committed suicide. For those of his peculiar tribe, bankrupted by medical bills, tormented by symptoms they cannot understand, dismissed as crazy by their own families, death is just the final step in a long retreat from a world that has become as alien and inhospitable as Mars…