Book #129 |
Book: Run for the Hills | Author: Kevin Wilson | |
| Source: Library loan Format: Audiobook |
Pages: 253 | Duration: 12/21/25 – 12/21/25 (1 day) | |
| Rating: ★★★★★ | Genres: fiction, humor, family, road trip | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Half-siblings road trip to find/meet their father who abandoned them. 🖌6-word review: A sibling story like no other. |
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| 💭A favorite quote: “I have no idea how you and I are connected,” Rube said to Mad’s mother. “Oh, I don’t think we’re anything.” “So I mean, I don’t know if it’s legal or anything, but maybe you would be, like, my stepmother once removed?” “Oh, honey, I don’t think it works like that.” “No, I know. But, we’re connected, obviously.” “Sure, why not?” she offered. |
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| Description:* Ever since her dad left them 20 years ago, it’s been just Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. While it’s a bit lonely, she sometimes admits, and a less exciting life than what she imagined for herself, it’s mostly okay. Mostly. Then one day Reuben Hill pulls up in a PT Cruiser and informs Madeline that he believes she’s his half sister. Reuben — left behind by their dad thirty years ago — has hired a detective to track down their father and a string of other half siblings. And he wants Mad to leave her home and join him for the craziest kind of road trip imaginable to find them all. As Mad and Rube — and eventually the others — share stories of their father, who behaved so differently in each life he created, they begin to question what he was looking for with every new incarnation. Who are they to one another? What kind of man will they find? And how will these new relationships change Mad’s previously solitary life on the farm?*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: I absolutely loved this book, in fact it might be my “book of the year” for 2025. This is my second book by this author, having read The Family Fang earlier in the year, and the common denominator is “quirky” — both in terms of storyline and characters. From reviews I’ve read, this author seems to be known for that. I hope to read another of his books in 2026. This is a 2025 book (published May 13), and I’d be very, very surprised if it isn’t made into a movie. At this time, the author and the publisher still own the rights to the book. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
