# Heroes of the Frontier - Hardcover

by **Dave Eggers** (Author)

**"A picaresque adventure and spiritual coming-of-age tale -- _On the Road_ crossed with _Henderson the Rain King_... Deeply affecting." --Michiko Kakutani, _The New York Times_**

Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction  
  
**A captivating, often hilarious novel of family and wilderness from the bestselling author of _The Circle_, this is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure.**

Josie and her children's father have split up, she's been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she's grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fianc e's family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation: They see bears and bison, they eat hot dogs cooked on a bonfire, and they spend nights parked along icy cold rivers in dark forests. But as they drive, pushed north by the ubiquitous wildfires, Josie is chased by enemies both real and imagined, past mistakes pursuing her tiny family, even to the very edge of civilization.

A tremendous new novel from the best-selling author of _The Circle_, _Heroes of the Frontier_ is the darkly comic story of a mother and her two young children on a journey through an Alaskan wilderness plagued by wildfires and a uniquely American madness.

### Author Biography

DAVE EGGERS is the author of many books, among them _The Circle, The Eyes and the Impossible, The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What_, and _The Museum of Rain_. He is the cofounder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing and tutoring center which has inspired dozens of similar nonprofit organizations around the world, and the founder of McSweeney's, an independent publisher. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is the recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for Education, and the American Book Award.

**Number of Pages:** 400

**Dimensions:** 1.5 x 8.6 x 6 IN

**Publication Date:** July 26, 2016

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