So Far Gone

First published 2025

Reception

Rave reviews. 12 of 17 critics gave a rave.

Rave 12 · Positive 2 · Mixed 3 · Pan 0

2 more quotes
  • “It’s a great hook that draws you in and doesn’t really let up for the next 256 pages”

    Associated Press · Rob Merrill · Rave

  • “[A] buoyant, witty caper … Walter’s affinity for his quirky cast shines through in their banter … Lacks the layers of the author’s previous works … His set pieces entertain.”

    The New York Times Book Review · Hamilton Cain · Positive

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About the book

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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, a man with no internet and a car that barely runs, reemerge into a broken world to track down his missing daughter and save his sweet, precocious grandchildren from the members of a dangerous militia?

With the help of his caustic ex-girlfriend, a bipolar retired detective, and his only friend (who happens to be furious with him), Kinnick heads off on a wild journey through cultural lunacy and the rubble of a life he thought he’d left behind.

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About the author

Jess Walter, born 1965, United States.

Catalogue record

Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2025 · 260 pages

Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2025
Pages
260
LC
PS3573.A4722834 S64
ISBN
978-0-06-286814-5
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2025
Pages
260
LC
PS3573.A4722834 S64
ISBN
  • 978-0-06-286814-5
Editions
  • HarperCollins Publishers, 2025 978-0-06-344460-7
  • Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2025, hardcover, 260 pages 978-0-06-286814-5
Author
Walter, Jess, 1965–
Statement
So Far Gone / Jess Walter.

Subjects

  • United States
  • 2020s
  • American literature

Catalogue data checked 3 October 2026