Preparation for the Next Life

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A troubled war veteran and an undocumented immigrant find love while struggling to survive A BEST BOOK OF 2014: The New York Times , Wall Street Journal , Vanity Fair , Publishers Weekly , BuzzFeed “ Dizzying in its ambition and exhilarating in its triumph. ”—The New York Times Book Review Brad Skinner, newly returned from three tours in Iraq, hitchhikes to New York hoping t