OE Book Club | November | SO FAR GONE

Held in person at Oxford Exchange on the second Tuesday of every month. This book club focuses on literary novels that stand the test of time and inspire thoughtful discussion.

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SO FAR GONE | Jess Walters

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins—and in the wild, propulsive spirit of Charles Portis’ True Grit—comes a hilarious and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren.

"As talented a natural storyteller as is working in American fiction."—Washington Post

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. So Far Gone is a rollicking, razor-sharp, and moving road trip through a fractured nation, from a writer who has been called “a genius of the modern American moment” (Philadelphia Inquirer).

Book Club Titles

• January The Overstory by Richard Powers
• February All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
• March One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel José de la Concordia Garcí­a Márquez
• April Atonement by Ian McEwan
• May Dream House Laila Lalami
• June The Frieny by Sigrid Nunez
• July Jaws by Peter Benchley (50th Anniversary)
• August Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin
• September The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (100th Anniversary)
• October Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin
• November So Far Gone by Jess Walter
• December The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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