Miller Cane: A True & Exact History, (Paperback)

<p>Professional liar Miller Cane is making a killing traveling around the country running therapy groups for survivors of mass shootings-and business is booming. But just as his latest con is unfolding, he's interrupted by a call from Lizzie, the woman he loves. It seems Lizzie's in jail for shooting and wounding Connor, an abusive former lover-who wants custody of Lizzie's eight-year-old daughter, Carleen. Lizzie is adamant: Miller must keep Carleen from Connor, taking her on the road with him in his battered old motor home.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Miller's former life as a history teacher and scholar catches up with him when his New York editor persuades him to contribute to a forthcoming history book. Miller takes Carleen to historical sites in the American West-from the Whitman Massacre site to the home of Laura Ingalls Wilder-and begins writing his textbook entries. But dealing as he is with the stress of parenting Carleen while evading Connor and other threats, Miller's textbook sidebars become more and more . . . creative.</p><p></p><p>As the two drive toward their inescapable destiny, Miller the liar struggles to say something true that he can bequeath to this child he's grown to love.</p><p></p><p><em>Miller Cane: A True &amp; Exact History</em> is set in our tumultuous present, swimming in violence and fraud, but it's also about how we care for each other, even save each other, with a narrative drive and sense of humor in the tradition of other American road novels, from <em>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</em> to <em>The Sisters Brothers</em>. Painfully true and painfully funny, <em>Miller Cane</em> will take its place alongside such classics as <em>True Grit</em> and <em>Paper Moon</em>.</p>

• Miller Cane: A True & Exact History, (Paperback)
• Author: Slant Books
• ISBN: 9781639822355
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-09-15
• Page Count: 276