Driver's Education: A Novel

Grant Ginders second novel “a sensitively observed story about storytelling” (The New Yorker) takes readers on a twenty-first century road trip that should appeal to fans of Junot Diaz and Michael Chabon (Booklist).. FINN McPHEE EDITS A REALITY TV SHOW. His father Colin is a screenwriter. Both are adept at spinning fictions a skill passed down to them by McPhee patriarch Alistair whose wild yarns never failed to capture Finn’s youthful imagination—even as they cast a fragile veil over a past marked by devastating loss unbearable love and an incessant longing for a life whose heroic proportions could measure up to the breathtakingly vivid color of Alistair’s dreams. As Finn embarks on a road trip across America with his best friend Randal and a three-legged cat named Mrs. Dalloway in a last-chance bid to make his grandfather’s dreams come true he will finally learn that the truth though not always stranger than fiction can sometimes make the best story of all.