From the bestselling author of }Room{ and }The Sealed Letter{ comes this dazzling collection of 14 fact-inspired short stories set in and around North America. Featuring a motley crew of emigrants, runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves, this mesmerising volume transports the reader from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey, and from antebellum Louisiana to a 1960s highway, encompassing four centuries of wanderings that have profound echoes in the present.