Professional liarMiller Cane is making a killing traveling around the country running therapygroups for survivors of mass shootings—and business is booming. But just as hislatest con is unfolding, he’s interrupted by a call from Lizzie, the woman he loves.It seems Lizzie’s in jail for shooting and wounding Connor, an abusive formerlover—who wants custody of Lizzie’s eight-year-old daughter, Carleen. Lizzie isadamant: Miller must keep Carleen from Connor, taking her on the road with himin his battered old motor home.
Meanwhile,Miller’s former life as a history teacher and scholar catches up with him whenhis New York editor persuades him to contribute to a forthcoming history book.Miller takes Carleen to historical sites in the American West—from the WhitmanMassacre site to the home of Laura Ingalls Wilder—and begins writing histextbook entries. But dealing as he is with the stress of parenting Carleenwhile evading Connor and other threats, Miller’s textbook sidebars become moreand more . . . creative.
As the two drivetoward their inescapable destiny, Miller the liar struggles to say somethingtrue that he can bequeath to this child he’s grown to love.
Miller Cane: ATrue & Exact History is set in our tumultuous present, swimming inviolence and fraud, but it’s also about how we care for each other, even saveeach other, with a narrative drive and sense of humor in the tradition of otherAmerican road novels, from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to TheSisters Brothers. Painfully true and painfully funny, MillerCane will take its place alongside such classics as TrueGrit and Paper Moon.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Meanwhile,Miller’s former life as a history teacher and scholar catches up with him whenhis New York editor persuades him to contribute to a forthcoming history book.Miller takes Carleen to historical sites in the American West—from the WhitmanMassacre site to the home of Laura Ingalls Wilder—and begins writing histextbook entries. But dealing as he is with the stress of parenting Carleenwhile evading Connor and other threats, Miller’s textbook sidebars become moreand more . . . creative.
As the two drivetoward their inescapable destiny, Miller the liar struggles to say somethingtrue that he can bequeath to this child he’s grown to love.
Miller Cane: ATrue & Exact History is set in our tumultuous present, swimming inviolence and fraud, but it’s also about how we care for each other, even saveeach other, with a narrative drive and sense of humor in the tradition of otherAmerican road novels, from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to TheSisters Brothers. Painfully true and painfully funny, MillerCane will take its place alongside such classics as TrueGrit and Paper Moon.
Genre: Literary Fiction