Jess is fifteen years old and waiting for the world to end. Her evangelical fatherhas packed up the family to drive west to California, hoping to save as manysouls as possible before the Second Coming. With her long-suffering mother andrebellious (and secretly pregnant) sister, Jess hands out tracts to nonbelievers at everyrest stop, Waffle House, and gas station along the way. As Jess’s belief frays, her teenagemyopia evolves into awareness about her fracturing family. Selected as a Barnes& Noble Discover pick and an Indie Next pick, Mary Miller’s radiant debut novelreinvigorates the literary road-trip story with wry vulnerability and savage charm.