"Rhys Kinnick, the protagonist of Jess Walter's new novel, So Far Gone, throws his phone out the window. Fed up with the current era's political and socioeconomic plights, he punches his conspiracy-theorist son-in-law in the face and retreats to a cinder-block house in the middle of the woods, off the grid and a mile from its nearest neighbors - based on the house Walter lived in as a child and still owned by his family."
"It's very much the world that I know, and while I don't think I've ever fantasized moving up there completely, I've always loved going up there and and noticing what it's like to have have civilization drop away ... to have the stars come back out, and to have that incredible silence that we just completely miss when we live in cities."
Rhys Kinnick abandons modern life by throwing his phone, punching his conspiracy-theorist son-in-law, and retreating to an off-grid cinder-block house in woods northwest of Spokane along the Spokane Indian Reservation. Kinnick is a reclusive former environmental reporter who values silence, stars, and the drop-off of civilization. His grandchildren unexpectedly arrive, forcing him into a bizarro road trip to find his missing daughter. He must confront a radical Christian nationalist church to rescue the grandchildren and unravel the mystery surrounding the daughter's disappearance. The house sits a mile from its nearest neighbors, off the grid and surrounded by deep forest.
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