"Walter rushed to the scene, and his on-the-ground reporting recorded the incident that later became known as the Ruby Ridge standoff. It began when Randy Weaver - an Aryan Nations sympathizer with apocalyptic religious beliefs - failed to show up in court to face charges related to selling a sawed-off shotgun. In response, federal agents swarmed his cabin. At the end of the bloody 11-day standoff, Weaver's wife, son and a U.S. marshal were all dead."
"So Far Gone is the story of Rhys Kinnick, a divorced middle-aged man who has become disillusioned with life. His son-in-law, Shane, has fallen into a bottomless well of conspiracy theories, and Kinnick cannot understand why his daughter stays with him. His newspaper laid him off, and his country elected Donald Trump as president. It all proves too much for him, so he exiles himself to an off-the-grid cabin."
""I think that disillusionment is one of the most human things that happens to us," he said."
In 1992 an armed standoff occurred at an isolated mountaintop cabin in northern Idaho known as Ruby Ridge. Randy Weaver, an Aryan Nations sympathizer, failed to appear in court on weapons charges, prompting a federal siege that left Weaver’s wife, son and a U.S. marshal dead. Ruby Ridge galvanized the anti-government militia movement and shaped contemporary political discourse. A novel, So Far Gone, follows Rhys Kinnick, a laid-off, disillusioned middle-aged man who retreats off-grid as his son-in-law sinks into conspiracy theories and his daughter disappears. The story examines disillusionment, family fracture, political polarization and the lure of isolation.
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