After you've lost it all--job, house, savings, future--what have you got left? A piercing new novel of our times by one of Canada's finest fiction writers.

On a chilly early morning in late spring, Joe Beaudry and his wife, Laurie, wake up in circumstances that would challenge saints: they are on the lam in a stolen motor home on the edge of a Walmart parking lot. They've gone bust, spectacularly: lost the house, the business, and Joe has stuck his ancient father in a nursing home so they could flee their creditors. Joe knows the reality of the situation, but Laurie somehow thinks it's only temporary, and maxes out their last credit card on wardrobe and hair colour and wishes and dreams. For Joe, it's the last straw in a marriage that once seemed predestined and now seems simply unworkable.

Pushed to figure out what to do next, Joe simply takes off hitchhiking...leaving Laurie waiting for Joe, and Joe wondering how he will ever find meaning in a world that has disappointed his every expectation. The road for both of them provides surprising answers...