Going Native

Going Native is Stephen Wrights darkly comic take on the road novel, in which one mans headlong escape from the American Dream becomes everybodys worst nightmare. Wylie Jones is set: lovely wife, beautiful kids, barbecues in the backyard of his tastefully decorated suburban Chicago house with good friends. Set, but not satisfied. So one night he just walks out, gets behind the wheel of a neighbors emerald-green Galaxy 500, and drives off into some other life, his name changed, his personality malleable. In Wrights inimitable narrative, were taken on a joy ride to hell, a rollercoaster of sex and violence and the peculiar mix of the two that is our society today. **