Jess Walter, author of SO FAR GONE- an in-person Boswell event

Boswell Book Company presents an evening with Jess Walter, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, who visits with his new book, So Far Gone.

from Boswell. Signed copies are available on most event preorders. If you have a personalization request, enter it in "order comments" at checkout. Please note: signed copies will ship AFTER the event. Remember to select “In Store Pickup” at check out to avoid unnecessary shipping fees on books you intend to pick up at the event.

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 track down his missing daughter and save his sweet, precocious grandchildren from the members of a dangerous militia?

"A warm, funny, loving novel... It's an American original."—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake

Jess Walter is the author of seven previous novels, including the bestsellers The Cold Millions and Beautiful Ruins, the National Book Award Finalist The Zero, and Citizen Vince, winner of the Edgar Award for best novel. His short fiction, collected in The Angel of Rome and We Live in Water, has won the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize and appeared three times in Best American Short Stories.