At the age of nineteen, Chris Offutt had already been rejected by the army, the Peace Corps, the park rangers, and the police.
Writing from the banks of the Iowa River, where he came to rest, he intersperses the story of hi.
Fifteen years later, Offutt finds himself in a place he never thought he\'d be: settled down with a pregnant wife.
So he left his home in the Kentucky Appalachians and thumbed his way north -- into a series of odd jobs and even stranger encounters with his fellow Americans.
At the age of nineteen, Chris Offutt had already been rejected by the army, the Peace Corps, the park rangers, and the police