Going Nowhere Slow

Going Nowhere Slow is a razor-sharp darkly comic coming-of-age novel about dead-end ambition failed relationships and the long strange road to figuring yourself out.Thurston Ford is a drifting college dropout with a penchant for doodling shrugging and disappointing everyone who's ever cared about him. When his gothic girlfriend Martha kicks him out Thurston trades a life of ramen-fueled codependency for an ill-prepared cross-country trek into the American Nowhere. But Thurston is just one traveler. Hawkins creates a stunning cast: a tech CEO a Midwestern ladies' fellowship group and a state succession movement all converging on one unsuspecting tourist town. Thurston is forced to confront his mediocrity privilege and the question he's avoided his whole life: What if no one thinks about you?Both painfully funny and surprisingly tender Going Nowhere Slow captures the awkward aching stretch between adolescence and adulthood with biting wit and quirky honesty.