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Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America--a sparkling novel;of love, friendship and chosen family, by the award-winning author of When Bernie replies to Leah''s ad for a new housemate in Philadelphia, the two begin an intense and defiantly uncategorizable friendship based on a mutual belief in their art, and each other. Both aspire to capture the world around them: Leah through her writing; Bernie through her photography. After Bernie''s former photography professor, the;renowned;yet tarnished Daniel Dunn, dies and;leaves her a complicated inheritance, Leah volunteers to accompany Bernie to;his home in rural Pennsylvania, turning the jaunt into a road trip with an ambitious mission: to document America through words and photographs.; What ensues is a;three-week journey into the heart of the nation,;bringing the two into conversation with;people from all walks of life, “the absurd dreamers and failures of this wide, wide country”, as they try to make sense of the times they are living in. Along the way, Leah and Bernie discover what it means to chase their own thoughts and dreams, and to embrace what they are capable of both romantically and artistically.
