First published 2019
Abandoned by his father, a lonely salesman embarks on a quixotic road trip to find his estranged son. Accompanied by an imaginary Sancho Panza, he battles corporate overlords and media-fueled hysteria, all while grappling with his own fading grip on reality. In this dazzling, genre-bending tale, Salman Rushdie deftly weaves a father-son story into a searing satire of modern America.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, contemporary, 21st-century
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, quixotic-quest, unreliable-narrator
Setting: America
Period: 21st-Century
393 pages · Paperback · Jonathan Cape