Permanent Astonishment Cars National Book Award­–winning author Pete

National Book Award­–winning author Pete Hautman imbues the classic road trip novel with clever wit and heartfelt musings about life and death

It's an animal menagerie

The only place that's cool (in a not-boring sense) and cool (in a not-hot sense) is the community pool

a tale of magic and second chances that’sfresh and thrilling in equal measure

fantastical mystery

Permanent Astonishment Cars National Book Award­–winning author PeteNATIONAL BESTSELLER Capricious, big hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canadas most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performers Tomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub Arctic, the eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic, caribou hunting Cree family. Growing up in a land of ten thousand lakes and islands, Tomson relished being pulled by dogsled beneath a night sky alive with stars, sucking the juices from roasted muskrat