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Run for the Hills

A Novel

by Kevin Wilson

Narrator Marin Ireland

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Length 7 hours 22 minutes

Language English

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Bookseller recommendation

“A hilarious family story that’ll make you think about the impact parents have on their children. I always love Kevin Wilson’s books on audio especially!”
— Rachel • Interabang Books

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“Kevin Wilson is a clever writer and this book is no exception. I usually read his books but throughly enjoyed this narrator reading it to me. The narrator kept the voices apart for each character and used just the right amount of emotion for each one. It is a heartfelt story with many emotions running throughout. A most enjoyable listen. ”
— Mollie • HearthFire Books

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“Deadpan-wit and heart, in this found family roadtrip story...Kevin Wilson does it again. ”
— Andra • Albany Books

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“A delightful road trip story about finding family and yourself. Mad, Rube, Pep and Tom are off to find their dad. This sounds a bit trite, and has been a theme in a million books: they end up finding out more about each other than they do their father. I loved every anxiety filled moment of this.”
— Doug • Madison Street Books

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“Kevin Wilson is a much needed literary voice. His books are always delightfully zany while not feeling slight. Mad is one of Wilson’s best central characters yet and each episode in her journey is a joy to read.”
— James Harrod • West Side Books

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“Tender and laugh-out-loud funny, this is the story of a most unusual cross-country family road trip. Highly recommended! ”
— Nola • Betty's Books

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“Kevin Wilson has a knack for making people feel so real that you want to open your door and invite them in. Run For the Hills is a sibling story to end all sibling stories. Excuse me, I have to go hug some people now. ”
— Carrie • Skylark Bookshop

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“The ultimate feel good road trip between half-siblings, barreling towards their absentee father. Characters are clearly defined, and the narrator brings them expertly to life. At times hilarious, and always full of heart.”
— Alissa • South Main Book Company

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“This is a wonderful summer read that helps us expand our definition of family. If you are hesitating on doing something outside of your comfort zone, read this for encouragement!”
— Alice • Bookbug

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“Road-trip novels are always fun, but when you add in a group of stepsiblings who didn’t know of each other’s existence before traveling together to track down their mysterious estranged father, you have a family drama of epic proportions. In Kevin Wilson’s deft hands (Nothing to See Here, The Family Fang), the quirky sibling stories slowly reveal a full picture of loss and renewal, creating an emotionally resonant and deeply moving account of what being part of a chosen family is.”
— Casey • Bookshop Santa Cruz

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“Lovely, heartfelt, and funny! ”
— Shelby • Magic City Books

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“You may know Kevin Wilson from his multiple novels in which people burst into flame. This one is a bit more grounded in reality but still just as zany: it’s about four half-siblings whose father abandoned them one by one and reinvented himself with each new family he started. It’s like The Royal Tenenbaums with the quirky, high-achieving personalities of the characters and Little Miss Sunshine in that it takes place over the course of a family road trip. If you like mystery novels, organic farming, women’s basketball, or low-budget, independent filmmaking, there’s a character here who you’ll connect with. Marin Ireland narrates them all brilliantly! ”
— Sarah • Scuppernong Books

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About the author

#38 in Bestselling Fiction - Literary Audiobooks

Audiobook performed by Marin Ireland

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: Time, People, LitHub, and BookRiot

An unexpected road trip across America brings a family together, in this heartfelt new novel from the bestselling author of Nothing to See Here.

Ever since her dad left them twenty 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 on a road trip 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?

Infused with deadpan wit and enormous heart, Run for the Hills is a sibling story like no other—a novel about a family forged under the most unlikely circumstances and united by hope in an unknown future.

Fiction Fiction - Literary

Kevin Wilson is the New York Times bestselling author of five novels, including Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Nothing to See Here, and The Family Fang, as well as two story collections. His work has received the Shirley Jackson Award and been selected as a Read with Jenna book club pick. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife and two sons.