num_pages: 320
description: The car is stolen, and driving it across America will become a journey into the heart of darkness for Wylie Jones. One minute he is barbecuing steaks for friends in a Chicago suburb; the next he is quietly walking away from the American dream of a tastefully decorated house, a wife, and two children...into a zany, off-kilter, violent world.Careening across the country in the souped-up old Ford—which happens to have a Glock pistol stashed under the front seat—Wylie’s escape from middle-class expectations turns into a contemporary On the Road. But in place of Kerouac’s misfits and rebels, this joyride travels from the Midwest to Southern California with the stock characters of confessional talk shows...and the terrifying surprises waiting in a nation on the edge of an emotional and social abyss.
language: English
title: Going Native
titlecomplete: Going Native
characters: Wylie Jones, Rho
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Humor, Modern, Contemporary, Mental Health, American, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 814
places: The United States of America
publisher: Delta / Cutting Edge