Run for the Hills : A Novel

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An unexpectedroad trip across America brings a family together, in this raucous and moving new novel from the bestselling author of Nothing to See Here.

Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, its been just Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. While its a bit lonely, she sometimes admits, and a less exciting life than what she imagined for herself, its mostly okay. Mostly.

Then one day Reuben Hill pulls up in a PT Cruiser and informs Madeline that he believes shes his half sister. Reubenleft behind by their dad thirty years agohas hired a detective to track down their father and a string of other half siblings. And he wants Mad to leave her home and join him for the craziest kind of road trip imaginable to find them all.

As Mad and Rubeand eventually the othersshare stories of their father, who behaved so differently in each life he created, they begin to question what he was looking for with every new incarnation. Who are they to one another? What kind of man will they find? And how will these new relationships change Mads previously solitary life on the farm?

Infused with deadpan wit, zany hijinks, and enormous heart, Run for the Hills is a sibling story like no othera novel about a family forged under the most unlikely circumstances and united by hope in an unknown future.