Highway Blue · A Novel

A road trip. A love story. A tale of discovery. This is a hypnotic debut of broken love on the run, from a blazingly original writer. "In front of me the long length of the road wound out, wound out and wound on under hot sky. And I drove..."Highway Blue tells the story of Anne-Marie and Cal: the story of their brief marriage, and also of their long estrangement. And when a violent ambush hurls the two of them cross-country on the road, it becomes the story of their search for salvation. On their ill-at-ease odyssey along the darker seams of the countryfrom sweaty motel rooms and darkened parking lots, encountering other whisky-soaked souls along the wayAnne-Marie sifts through the consequences of their crime. But this is also the story of love, in all its broken forms, and how the pursuit of love is, in turn, a kind of redemption.Written in spare, shimmering prose, this is a novel of tragedy and transcendence, of being...