Patrimonious is a caustically funny, painfully human novel about aging, memory loss, broken families, and the slow collapse of the so-called American Dream. It’s equal parts anarchist road trip, generational cage match, and love story gone scorched-earth. For readers who:
Have dreamed about busting out of assisted living in a stolen vehicle.
Carry at least one buried decade of family trauma.
Would gleefully burn a house down just to spite a narcissistic ex.
Believe a proper road novel requires crime, burritos, and righteous fury.
Loaded with anti-capitalist bite, savage takes on masculinity, and enough black comedy to get banned in polite company, Patrimonious reads like what happens when Hunter S. Thompson and Chuck Palahniuk crash a family reunion hosted by an angry Zen gardener with neither of them sober enough to operate a motor vehicle.
Content advisory: geriatric outlaws, legal farce, emotional haymakers, unsolicited rants, weaponized family ties, and one deeply judgmental dog.
