Farewell Transmission: Notes from Hidden Spaces

In Farewell Transmission, Will McGrath guides us on a rambling quest into theenlightenment of other lives.

Funny and weird, heartbreaking and galvanizing,these essays take us from Yemen to Lesotho to the Bronx and beyond.

We findCaravaggio at an Arizona homeless shelter and Elvis in rural Canada.

We meetstreet preachers and diamond miners and professional wrestlers andex-consthose wilderness prophets too frequently cropped from the picture andpushed out of the frame.Thisis a book of hiddenness: of secret lives and inscrutable passions, of ghoststories and hallucinations, of excavations into landscapes rarely seen.

Whetherhes unraveling the mysterious history of a noose in Namibia or ramblingthrough the Driftless Area with a modern-day goatherd, Will McGrath is in searchof the invisible forces that bind us across our wondrous and troubling planet.Like John Jeremiah Sullivans Pulphead and Leslie Jamisons TheEmpathy Exams, these dispatches pulse with electric prose and vividcharacters.Farewell Transmission is a book about paying attention: to the concealed lives and hidden worlds weencounter every day.