**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING PAUL MESCAL AND JOSH O’CONNORWinner of the Story Prize Spotlight Award • Shortlisted for the 2025 Mark Twain Award • Longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction & the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionAn ALA Notable Book • One of NPR’s “Books We Love” • One of the Chicago Tribune’s 10 Best Books of 2024 • Best Short Fiction, Kirkus Reviews“Polyphonic fiction. . . . A reminder of the short sto...

**A The New Yorker Best Book of 2022A New England Indie BestselllerA New York Times Best Book of Summer, a Wall Street Journal and Town & Country Best Book of Spring“A gorgeous reminder that walking is the most radical form of locomotion nowadays.” ―Nick Offerman“I think Thoreau would have liked this book, and that’s a high recommendation.” ―Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature**On an autumn morning ...

On an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a century and a half later, Ben Shattuck does the same. With little more than a loaf of bread, brick of cheese, and a notebook, Shattuck sets out to retrace Thoreau’s path through the Cape’s outer beaches, from the elbow to Provincetown’s fingertip.This is the first of six journeys taken by Shattuck, each one inspired by a walk once taken by Henry David Thoreau. After ...

**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING PAUL MESCAL AND JOSH O’CONNORWinner of the Story Prize Spotlight Award • Shortlisted for the 2025 Mark Twain Award • Longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction & the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionAn ALA Notable Book • One of NPR’s “Books We Love” • One of the Chicago Tribune’s 10 Best Books of 2024 • Best Short Fiction, Kirkus Reviews“Polyphonic fiction. . . . A reminder of the short sto...