Miller Cane: A True & Exact History

Professional liarMiller Cane is making a killing traveling around the country running therapygroups for survivors of mass shootingsand business is booming. But just as hislatest con is unfolding, hes interrupted by a call from Lizzie, the woman he loves.It seems Lizzies in jail for shooting and wounding Connor, an abusive formerloverwho wants custody of Lizzies eight-year-old daughter, Carleen. Lizzie isadamant: Miller must keep Carleen from Connor, taking her on the road with himin his battered old motor home.Meanwhile,Millers former life as a history teacher and scholar catches up with him whenhis New York editor persuades him to contribute to a forthcoming history book.Miller takes Carleen to historical sites in the American Westfrom the WhitmanMassacre site to the home of Laura Ingalls Wilderand begins writing histextbook entries. But dealing as he is with the stress of parenting Carleenwhile evading Connor and other threats, Millers textbook sidebars become moreand more . . . creative.As the two drivetoward their inescapable destiny, Miller the liar struggles to say somethingtrue that he can bequeath to this child hes grown to love.Miller Cane: ATrue & Exact History is set in our tumultuous present, swimming inviolence and fraud, but its also about how we care for each other, even saveeach other, with a narrative drive and sense of humor in the tradition of otherAmerican road novels, from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to TheSisters Brothers. Painfully true and painfully funny, MillerCane will take its place alongside such classics as TrueGrit and Paper Moon.