Paperback. A monk leaves the monastery to search for his teenage brother, who has run away from home in the middle of a high school cross-country race. Alternating between each brother's perspective, Pilgrims follows its protagonists as they encounter Appalachian Trail thru-hikers, greyhound rescuers, eccentric communists, and tiny cemetery-keepers. A rumination on abandonment and the intimacies we've lost to a world obsessed with progress and material success, Pilgrims announces the arrival of a striking new voice in American fiction. A monk leaves the monastery to search for his brother, who has run away from home in the middle of a high school cross-country race. Alternating between each brother's perspective, Pilgrims follows its protagonists as they encounter Appalachian Trail thru-hikers, eccentric communists, and tiny cemetery-keepers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Pilgrims (Paperback)
Publisher: Great Place Books
Publication Date: 2025
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1950987590
ISBN 13: 9781950987597
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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A monk leaves the monastery to search for his teenage brother, who has run away from home in the middle of a high school cross-country race. Alternating between each brother's perspective, Pilgrims follows its protagonists as they encounter Appalachian Trail thru-hikers, greyhound rescuers, eccentric communists, and tiny cemetery-keepers. A rumination on abandonment and the intimacies we've lost to a world obsessed with progress and material success, Pilgrims announces the arrival of a striking new voice in American fiction.

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Devin Kelly is a high school teacher in New York City. He writes the newsletter Ordinary Plots, and his work has appeared in The Guardian, Longreads, LitHub, The Year's Best Sportswriting, and more. Pilgrims is his first novel.

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