New York: Viking, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first published novel, a road story in which an elderly veteran who is developing AlzheimerÕs disease travels across the country with his rebellious 14-year-old granddaughter. Dust jacket praise from Sue Grafton who said ÒThis is what reading is about, and what a good book is supposed to do." Winner of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. 291 pp. ISBN: 978-0670021611.