Publisher's Synopsis
- National Book Foundation "5 under 35" honoree - 2010.
- A Best Book of 2010 -NPR, Amazon, Shelf Unbound
- The Believer Book Award, Finalist
- Indie Bookseller's Choice Awards, Finalist
"Krilanovich's work will make you believe that new ways of storytelling are still emerging from the margins."
-Rachel Syme, NPR
A girl with drug-induced ESP and an eerie connection to Patty Reed (a young member of the Donner Party who credited her survival to her relationship with a hidden wooden doll), searches for her disappeared foster sister along "The Highway That Eats People," stalked by a conflation of Twin Peaks' "Bob" and the Green River Killer, known as Dactyl.
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