Rhys Kinnick blew up his life seven years ago and has been living off the grid in the woods of eastern Washington, no phone, no news, growing his own food and stewing. Then his granddaughter and grandson turn up at his gate having escaped their parents, who have gone deep into a militia-adjacent church, and Rhys has to come back down into a country he stopped following. Walter is funny about the whole thing — the aging radical, the sheriff, the true believers — and then gets serious about what happened to American families in the last decade. Set in his own Spokane country.
So Far Gone