In person at Brookline Booksmith! Celebrate the release of 
Run for the Hills 
with author Kevin Wilson, in conversation with Joanna Rakoff.
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Run for the Hills
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: 
Time
, 
People
, LitHub, and BookRiot
An unexpected road 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, it’s been just Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. While it’s a bit lonely, she sometimes admits, and a less exciting life than what she imagined for herself, it’s mostly okay. Mostly.
Then one day Reuben Hill pulls up in a PT Cruiser and informs Madeline that he believes she’s his half sister. Reuben—left behind by their dad thirty years ago—has 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 Rube—and eventually the others—share 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 Mad’s 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 other—a novel about a family forged under the most unlikely circumstances and united by hope in an unknown future.
Kevin Wilson
 is the 
New York Times 
bestselling author of five novels, including 
Now Is Not the Time to Panic
, 
Nothing to See Here, 
and 
The Family Fang
, as well as two story collections. His work has received the Shirley Jackson Award and been selected as a Read with Jenna book club pick.
 
He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife and two sons.
Joanna Rakoff
 is the author of the international bestselling memoir 
My Salinger Year
 
and the bestselling novel 
A Fortunate Age.
 Rakoff’s books have been translated into twenty languages, and the film adaptation of 
My Salinger Year
 
opened in theaters worldwide in 2021 and is now streaming. She has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, Sewanee, Bread Loaf, Authors’ Guild, PEN and more and has taught at Columbia University, Brooklyn College, and Aspen Words. Her writing has appeared in 
The New York Times
, 
The Guardian
, 
O: The Oprah Magazine
, 
Vogue
, 
Elle
, and elsewhere, and her new memoir, 
The Fifth Passenger
, is forthcoming.
About Brookline Booksmith
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