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A magnificent debut about a man''s odyssey toward family redemption- with his granddaughter along for the ride

Bill Warrington realizes he has Alzheimer''s and his lucid days are numbered. Determined to repair a lifetime of damage to his estranged adult children, Bill takes off with his fifteen-year-old granddaughter April on a cross-country drive, bound for San Francisco, where she dreams of becoming a rock star. As the unlikely pair heads west, Bill leaves clues intended to force his three children-including April''s frantic mother-to overcome their mutual distrust and long-held grievances to work together to find them.

In this dazzling road trip novel, James King masterfully explores themes of aging, sibling rivalry, family dysfunction, and coming of age, against a backdrop of the American heartland. Unflinching, funny, and poignant, Bill Warrington''s Last Chance speaks to that universal longing for familial reconciliation, love, and forgiveness.

Read James King''s blogs and other content on the Penguin Community.

A magnificent debut about a man''s odyssey toward family redemption- with his granddaughter along for the ride

Bill Warrington realizes he has Alzheimer''s and his lucid days are numbered. Determined to repair a lifetime of damage to his estranged adult children, Bill takes off with his fifteen-year-old granddaughter April on a cross-country drive, bound for San Francisco, where she dreams of becoming a rock star. As the unlikely pair heads west, Bill leaves clues intended to force his three children-including April''s frantic mother-to overcome their mutual distrust and long-held grievances to work together to find them.

In this dazzling road trip novel, James King masterfully explores themes of aging, sibling rivalry, family dysfunction, and coming of age, against a backdrop of the American heartland. Unflinching, funny, and poignant, Bill Warrington''s Last Chance speaks to that universal longing for familial reconciliation, love, and forgiveness.