After the death of her father and the disappearance of her grandfather, eight-year-old Charlcie sets out with her mother and grandmother on a desperate road trip north to find him. As grief, addiction, old resentments, and a growing sense of danger threaten to pull the family apart, three generations must decide whether love can survive the ways people fail one another.
The Self-Imposed Exile of Nicholas Worth is a darkly comic literary novelette about grief, family, forgiveness, and refusing to abandon each other when life hurts.