The Rootless Elysium: America at 250, A Journey

From the author of A Return to Self comes an intimate meditation on identity and migration set against the backdrop of America’s 250th anniversary that asks: in a nation built on motion and reinvention, can one ever truly feel at home?

Soon after becoming an American citizen, Aatish Taseer sets out from Chicago in a hulking Dodge Charger with no plan but a deadline: to reach the Pacific in ten days. What begins as a classic road trip along Route 66 quickly becomes something more searching an...