With the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray. They are emigrants, runaways, drifters; gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross borders of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, under duress or incognito.
This fascinating collection from Emma Donoghue, author of the internationally bestselling Room, is a sequence of fourteen fact-inspired fictions about travels to, in and from North America, Astray offers a past in scattered pieces, a surprising and moving history for restless times.
Important places
Cape Cod (125)Chicago (1,721)
Hopewell (15)
Jersey City (37)
London (7,095)
Newmarket (3)
New York (7,400)
Vacherie (2)
Wickenburg (2)
Counties
Mercer (121)Maricopa (169)
Cook (1,792)
New York (8,072)
St. James (2)
Hudson (74)
Barnstable (178)
Regions
Yukon (174)Ontario (2,314)
Arizona (1,022)
New Jersey (1,469)
Massachusetts (3,085)
Louisiana (1,489)
Texas (2,882)
Illinois (2,704)
New York (9,763)
Countries
Canada (8,082)United Kingdom (21,421)
United States (64,950)
Other geographical areas
Gulf Of St. Lawrence (12)Ogilvie Mountains (48)
Mackenzie Mountains (51)
Sonoran Desert (54)
Edwards Plateau (159)
Northern Canada (299)
Central Lowlands (North America) (1,334)
Southwestern United States (1,729)
Great Plains (2,255)
Gulf Coast (USA) (2,573)
Central Canada (3,035)
Deep South (4,776)
New England (5,830)
Greater London (7,856)
North Atlantic Ocean (8,812)