Walk Me To the Distance by Percival Everett

Walk Me To the Distance by Percival EverettLarson can never go home. His parents are dead. His sister and her hippie husband, staunchly anti war, won't even have the newly returned Vietnam veteran in the house. So Larson takes his chances on the road, travelling west from Georgia until he breaks down in the nowhere town of Slut's Hole, Wyoming. There he finds lodging with Chlo Sixbury, a one legged sexagenarian widow, and her disabled son. Their ersatz family is complete when Larson takes in

whose family is compelled to flee their home in Tehran for a new life in a small village

the child Hanthala

When they are girls

as intensely as this

while the fifteen stories

with elements from other versions

line by line

but things can be simple

'A beautiful and powerful novel about the true and sometimes painful depths of love' Candice Carty-Williams

With lushly coloured illustrations that tug at your heart

After nearly fifty years of reading Joyce it seems only right that I should pass on what I have learned of his methods to those who come fresh to his riches

Goethe and the bewitching Hermione - the misanthropic Haller discovers a higher truth