The Trace

by Forrest Gander

Book Overview

The Trace is a masterful, poetic novel about a journey through Mexico taken by a couple recovering from a world shattered. Driving through the Chihuahua Desert, they retrace the route of nineteenth-century American writer Ambrose Bierce (who disappeared during the Mexican Revolution) and try to piece together their lives after a devastating incident involving their adolescent son. With tenderness and precision, Gander explores the intimacies of their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081122371X
• ISBN13: 9780811223713
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"