Escaping from a career-ending lawsuit, and a disinterested man-child of a husband, Josie packs up Paul and Ana, rents a rickety RV and takes to the road. Ostensibly there's a plan to visit her adopted-sister, Sam, but Josie's slippery grip on her imploding life quickly takes her family into a succession of scrapes and near-calamities as they cross the state amid a series of wildfires.
Despite a rather unsympathetic lead with a knack for consistently - and annoyingly - making the wrong choices, this was an enjoyably off-kilter road trip. Sometimes alarming, sometimes funny, and sometimes touching on the profound, I ultimately enjoyed it as a low-key, Zeitgeisty freefall through the calamity of modern life. Helped, needless to say, by Eggers' great writing.
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