Preparation for the Next Life: A Novel (PEN/Faulkner Award Winner for Fiction)

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A troubled war veteran and an undocumented immigrant find love while struggling to survive

A BEST BOOK OF 2014: The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed

“Dizzying in its ambition and exhilarating in its triumph.”—The New York Times Book Review

Brad Skinner, newly returned from three tours in Iraq, hitchhikes to New York hoping to exorcise his demons and reac...