The Last Great Road Bum a place she knows only

a place she knows only from her mother’s stories

Salh fled first to a refugee camp on the Kenyan border and ultimately to North America to learn yet another way of life

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and her appetite for cake

moving novel in the spirit of Transcendent Kingdom and A Burning—and the most awarded debut title in South Africa—that tells the story of a multiracial family when the Immorality Act is passed

The Last Great Road Bum a place she knows onlyOne of the Los Angeles Times Top 10 California Books of 2020. One of Publishers Weeklys Top 10 Fiction Books from 2020. Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the Joyce Carol Oates prize. One of Exile in Bookvilles Favorite Books of 2020. In The Last Great Road Bum, Hctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times.