In his new novel, So Far Gone, Jess Walter once again indulges his journalist’s instinct to write what he sees

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Jess Walter’s latest novel examines life on the fringe.

In So Far Gone, Jess Walter’s first novel since 2020’s The Cold Millions, the protagonist is drawn out of several years of self-imposed isolation when his partly estranged grandchildren suddenly appear at the screen door of his cinder block cabin in remote Stevens County.

The opening pages see Rhys Kinnick, a retired journalist, doing some quick mental math to calculate just how long it’s been since he willfully removed himself from society — even if the word recluse

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