Walk Me to the Distance

Now with a brilliant new package, this reissue of Walk Me to the Distance by Percival Everett—New York Times bestselling author and winner of the 2024 National Book Award for James—reintroduces a haunting, provocative, and darkly humorous novel that reexamines the American West with stark originality.

In his self-imposed exile after serving in Vietnam, David Larson drifts into the desolate town of Slut’s Hole, Wyoming. There, a local widow takes him in, and David finds a tenuous sense of belonging among the town’s weathered residents. But when he reluctantly takes in a young Vietnamese girl abandoned by the highway, their fragile new life begins to unravel. As frontier justice and fading Western ideals collide with the realities of a changing world, tragedy looms on the horizon.

Originally published in 1985 by Clarion Books, Walk Me to the Distance is Everett’s sophomore novel—a laconic tragicomedy that interrogates myth, survival, and identity in the waning light of big-sky America.

Across his five-decade career, Everett has written over twenty-five books, won for the Pulitzer Prize (James, 2025), twice longlisted for the Booker Prize, and earned acclaim for James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the enslaved Jim. James was a #1 New York Times bestseller and is currently being developed into a film by Steven Spielberg.