New York: William H. Morrow, (2001). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second novel, third book. "After her release from prison, Reka tries to escape her white trash background in Trent, N.C. by taking a job as a door-to-door textbook salesperson in the Midwest, but the job fizzles and she drifts across early 1960s America, ending up in Seattle. Randall leaves a construction job in Norfolk, Va., to search for his lost sister, heading westward after a series of sexual flings in Chicago. The siblings reunite only when they return home to Trent, but they find that a true reunion is impossible because in the course of their travels they have grown apart." (PW review) SIGNED on the title page. 354 pp. ISBN: 0-380978601.