The Last Great Road Bum It is about on-the-job pains

It is about on-the-job pains and immeasurable satisfactions

moving novel in the spirit of Transcendent Kingdom and A Burning—and the most awarded debut title in South Africa—that tells the story of a multiracial family when the Immorality Act is passed

not as a victim

a place she knows only from her mother’s stories

The Last Great Road Bum It is about on-the-job painsOne of the Los Angeles Times Top 10 California Books of 2020. One of Publishers Weeklys Top 10 Fiction Books from 2020. Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the Joyce Carol Oates prize. One of Exile in Bookvilles Favorite Books of 2020. In The Last Great Road Bum, Hctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times.