On the Road Faulkner lets each family member

Faulkner lets each family member -- including Addie -- and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life

and gentrification

From the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists

and gimlet eye for human behavior

A magnificent

On the Road Faulkner lets each family memberFew novels have had as profound an impact as On the Road, and Kerouac's vision continues to inspire: three generations of writers, musicians, artists, and poets cite their discovery of On the Road as the event that "set them free." This hardcover edition commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the original publication of an American classic. On the Road chronicles Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent, from East Coast to West Coast