Don'T Skip Out On Me Av Willy Vlautin

<p><b>FINALIST FOR THE 2019 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD</b><br><br>Meet Horace Hopper, a twenty-one-year-old farm hand in Tonopah, Nevada, who works for Mr Reece and his wife, the nearest thing he’s had to family in years.<br><br>But Horace, half-white half-Paiute Indian, dreams of bigger things. Leaving behind the farm and its fragile stability, he heads South to re-invent himself as the Mexican boxer Hector Hidalgo. Slowly, painfully, the possibility emerges that his dreams might not just be the delusions of a lost soul… but at what cost, and what of those he’s left behind?<br><br>Exploring the fringes of contemporary America, <i>Don’t Skip Out on Me</i> is an extraordinary work of compassion - a novel about the need for human connection and understanding - and essential reading, now more than ever.</p>