
At the age of nineteen, Chris Offutt had already been rejected by the army, the Peace Corps, the park rangers, and the police. So he left his home in the Kentucky Appalachians and thumbed his way north -- into a series of odd jobs and even stranger encounters with his fellow...

A beautifully written, darkly humorous account of a young Kentuckian's cross-country search for self--and his rocky transition to fatherhood. "As moving as the current he must cross and recross to find his way".--New York Times Book Review. Offutt is the author of Kentucky Straight...
