Sarah Kendzior
April 16 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Pre-Order The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir
Magic City Books is thrilled to welcome Sarah Kendzior for a free, in-store event on Wednesday, April 16 to celebrate her new book, The Last American Road Trip. This event will take place in the Algonquin Room at Magic City Books, 221 E. Archer Street in the Tulsa Arts District at 7:00 pm.
“Impassioned… Kendzior stitches together history, travelogue, and political analysis to deliver a trenchant defense of flyover country… It adds up to a poignant portrait of life in the Trump era.” —Publishers Weekly
“A graceful–and righteously angry–travelogue through a troubled land.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Sarah will be joined in conversation by award-winning writer and photographer Tim Landes. Tim is the features editor for TulsaPeople Magazine, a Cherokee Nation citizen serving on the Cherokee Phoenix Editorial Board and a member of the Indigenous Journalists Association, as well as a board member of Tulsa Press Club and League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Tulsa.
The Last American Road Trip will be published by Flatiron Books on April 1, 2025 and available for sale at Magic City Books. You can purchase a copy online at: https://magiccitybooks.square.site/product/the-last-american-road-trip/3201
About The Last American Road Trip
The New York Times bestselling author of They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sight, and The View from Flyover Country navigates a changing America as she and her family embark on a series of road trips, in a book that is part memoir, part history, and wholly unique.
It is one thing to study the fall of democracy, another to have it hit your homeland — and yet another to raise children as it happens. The Last American Road Trip is one family’s journey to the most beautiful, fascinating, and bizarre places in the US during one of its most tumultuous eras. As Kendzior works as a journalist chronicling political turmoil, she becomes determined that her young children see America before it’s too late. So Kendzior, her husband, and the kids hit the road — again and again.
Starting from Missouri, the family drives across America in every direction as cataclysmic events –- the rise of autocracy, political and technological chaos, and the pandemic –- reshape American life. They explore Route 66, national parks, historical sites, and Americana icons as Kendzior contemplates love for country in a broken heartland. Together, the family watches the landscape of the United States — physical, environmental, social, political — transform through the car window.
Part memoir, part political history, The Last American Road Trip is one mother’s promise to her children that their country will be there for them in the future –- even though at times she struggles to believe it herself.
Sarah Kendzior is the bestselling author of The View from Flyover Country, Hiding in Plain Sight, and They Knew. She lives with her husband and children in St. Louis, Missouri.
