A Prayer for Travelers: A Novel

"Sometimes characters come along that demand a new kind of novel. The young women at the center of Ruchika Tomar's*A Prayer for Travelers*- elusive Penny and wounded Cale - are two spirits hitchhiking through geographies of dislocation and desire. The human collisions in Tomar's novel are emotionally seismic, and they leave us haunted and unsettled."
--Adam Johnson, author of*The Orphan Master's Son

Cale Lambert, a bookish loner of mysterious parentage, lives in a dusty town near the Californ...