After the Parade

The debut novel from award-winning author Lori Ostlund—“smart, resonant, and imbued with beauty” ( Publishers Weekly ) that “provides considerable pleasure and emotional power” ( The New York Times Book Review )—about a man who leaves his longtime partner in New Mexico for a tragicomic road trip deep into the mysteries of his own Midwestern childhood. Sensitive, bighearted, and achingly self-conscious, forty-year-old Aaron Englund long ago escaped the confinements of his Midwestern hometown, but