“Eerily prescient”
“Powerful true and brilliant”
”A searing, fast-paced warning”

“A believable dystopia in the not-too-distant, not-too-different future . . . a detailed story with jarringly accurate turns of phrase, characters you feel like you know, and a situation you hope you’ll never know”
–Elise Schumock, owner, Rose City Book Pub

Available August 17, 2021
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Most people say wait it out. After all, President Kaspar isn’t as bad as expected. He’s banned fracking, improved medical care, even provided every American over eight with a free cell phone! So what if the number of news channels has shrunk to three, and no one can afford email anymore? Even when a health crisis in New York City shakes the country to its core and raises the specter of authoritarianism, President Kaspar explains it all calmly in his cardigan sweater. Most people say wait it out. New York City transplant Tessa lives in a leafy Portland, Oregon neighborhood with her husband Larry and teenage son Holden. They are 3,000 miles away, but that is too close for comfort. They can’t wait it out. They take a different path―one that will shatter their lives, their identities, and change the course of a nation.

my God, how did I get here?

"Wrong Highway is a captivating debut novel."
–Kim Bissell, co-owner, Broadway Books

Wrong Highway is a jaw-dropping story of domesticity on the skids in the late 1980s. The setting may be ordinary, but Wendy Gordon’s perspective and storytelling are anything but. Her carefully observed world of West Meadow is populated with characters who could be friends or neighbors, or even yourself—everyone shielding their big secrets in plain sight. Relationships entangle in unexpected ways while the ’80s soundtrack plays on. Life in Gordon’s suburbia careens out of control at breakneck speed as family members make all the wrong decisions for all the right reasons. Reading Wrong Highway is like witnessing a traffic accident and not being able to tear your gaze away.