The New York Times top 10 bestseller. 'The mirror image of Eggers's brilliantly dystopian The Circle.... [A] state of the nation novel, cleansing the spirit and lifting the heart' - Guardian. A hilarious and heart-warming misadventure through modern America: it's time for the family vacation. Josie's life is falling apart - lawsuits raining down, her business down the drain, and a feckless husband long gone - so she gathers up her two kids and lights out for the wilderness. The Alaskan wilderness, to be specific. This is a story about the trip of a lifetime. It involves one battered old RV, one highly sensitive eight-year-old boy, one fearless and hyperactive five-year-old girl, several forest fires, a large supply of pinot noir, and a deeply misguided sense of optimism. It may well be that things don't turn out quite as Josie expected - but then again, some of the best places in the world are.