From Away: A Novel

By: David Carkeet

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Synopsis: &“If Alfred Hitchcock could remake Fargo, it might feel something like Carkeet&’s comic-absurd latest&” (Publishers Weekly). Denny Braintree, a wisecracking loner devoted to model trains, has found himself stranded in Vermont. His night at the hotel begins promisingly—until his prospective one-night stand walks out on him. As he prepares to leave town, someone mistakes Denny for Homer Dumpling—a local man who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier, and who apparently looks a whole lot like Denny. Instead of correcting the mistake, Denny slips into his new identity as easily as a winter fleece. And it&’s a good thing too, because the woman he&’d hoped to sleep with has turned up dead, and the chief suspect is the out-of-towner who was pursuing her at the hotel . . . As Denny tries to unravel the mystery, he struggles to hide his true identity from Homer&’s increasingly suspicious circle of family and friends, including Homer&’s prickly girlfriend. The adventures of this fast-talking bumbler as his survival instincts are put to the test make for a rollicking novel by an author who has produced &“some of the funniest writing since Mark Twain&” (Jonathan Kellerman, New York Times–bestselling author of Night Moves). &“A deftly funny book.&” —Carl Hiaasen